In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities - except when using the Web. Browsing the Web leaves digital tracks everywhere in the form of log files, and anyone who hosts a Web site can be easily traced.
From Jamais Cascio
Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'
Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.
By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
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