E-mails don’t have the inky charisma of handwritten manuscripts, but they’re more and more a part of literary archives. For instance, when the British Library...
Good piece - and anything which exposes the mainstream world wider to the work of Gibson is to be approved.
I'm rather surprised you don't have any mention of the one writer (also from the SF genre, mostly) who completely described this situation much earlier - David Brin, in 'The Transparent Society'.
Cat_Vincent: Good piece - and anything which exposes the mainstream world
hp_blogger_Matt Osborne: I'll take that as a recommendation! http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Society-Technology-Between-Privacy/dp/0738201448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254603865&sr=1-1
I can only hope that you are correct, Matt. In the past, government always had the most powerful technology first and often long before the rest of us even knew it existed. Do they already have the giant slayer stashed away somewhere in a triple locked closet somewhere in DARPA or CIA or some other alphabet agency we've never heard of?
Who can say.
COPerez: I can only hope that you are correct, Matt. In
Nice, thoughtful piece, Matt. I hope you are right, your right-wing Loony Tune brigade can't be exposed for what they really are often enough. Preferably with air-horn accompaniment.
kevinem2: Nice, thoughtful piece, Matt. I hope you are right, your
I'm rather surprised you don't have any mention of the one writer (also from the SF genre, mostly) who completely described this situation much earlier - David Brin, in 'The Transparent Society'.
http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Society-Technology-Between-Privacy/dp/0738201448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254603865&sr=1-1
You cannot. Stop. The information. It WANTS to get out.
Who can say.