Religions > Atheism > OT: 'For most people, it's been a pretty golden period' ... 'Human rights have been a pivotal issue'
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OT: 'For most people, it's been a pretty golden period' ... 'Human rights have been a pivotal issue' |
'For most people, it's been a pretty golden period' ... 'Human rights
have been a pivotal issue'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1675177,00.html
What have been the defining events of the past five years - and what
will the noughties be remembered for in 30 years' time? Zo=EB Corbyn and
Lucy Clouting ask 10 leading figures for their thoughts
Friday December 30, 2005
The Guardian
Chris Anderson
Editor, Wired magazine
The last five years are just finally delivering on the promises of the
previous five years. All the technologies you are seeing in the form of
Google and everything else are just really capitalising on the things
we were talking about in the mid-1990s; we are just making it all work
finally. I would say that people would look at the noughties as being
the era where you could assume that everyone was connected all of the
time. The technologies of connection predate this decade, but the
adoption of connection is something that happened this decade. This is
the decade that broadband hit critical mass, and when mobile phones and
all the wireless data technologies hit critical mass. The Japanese call
it ubiquitous computing, but I would call it ubiquitous connectivity.
We have hit that critical mass; ubiquitous connectivity has been
achieved. All this data has suddenly come flooding onto the market
thanks to this ubiquitous connectivity, and it is simply a matter of
throwing hardware and software at it and seeing how it works out.
Human Rights
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/cd9219efd949a37b
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