First off, apologies for my lack of posting this month. It has been hectic at work – lots of new books come out in September, many about politics and the war. Today I’m producing a chat with this guy which should be really fun.
Sunday I was browsing the BBC’s news site (which I do every day) and I came across this story that is at once exciting, fascinating, and scary. A comprehensive survey of the world’s leading technologists finds consensus that by the year 2020 the internet will be pervasive and part of billions of devices worldwide. It also finds a self-selected group of Luddites will resist the technology. “Of course, we’ll have more Unabombers,”wrote Cory Doctorow, an author of the big blog BoingBoing.
Would English remain the dominant language of the internet? Not all agree. And more than half the respondents said it would be dangerous to leave machines in charge of surveillance and security functions.
