15 Mar 2007
Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live

He's won a few (on the prediction front), he's lost a few, too. He'll lose this one.

Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017.

(link) [The Register]

06:36 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

The World? Your Oyster? Why Not?

A paean to Information Overload.

Oh, the irony. All that information as close as your computer screen and there you sit, pondering the deeper meaning of Anna Nicole Smith's death because that's what your RSS feed has been told to deliver. The Chinese may be pouring across the Yalu River again, if that works as an economic metaphor, and the icecaps might be melting, but you'd never know. Or care. Commentary by Tony Long.

(link) [Wired News: Top Stories]

06:31 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link