machine-envy

This week’s column in the New Statesman reviews the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s recent survey of prominent futurologists:

“Sometimes writing about the internet can seem like a cop-out. Imagining the impact that new technology will have on human life, in all its social, political and linguistic forms, is fun, exciting and much easier than, say, reporting from the Middle East. And yet the futurologist is only a step away from the cocktail-party doom-monger boring on about speed cameras, mobile-phone masts and shopping centres.

”But it is a refreshing experience to view futurologists’ predictions in aggregate. A survey released late last month…”

Read the rest here.

This entry was posted by Becky Hogge on Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 5:39 pm and is filed under media, newstatesman, surveillance. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.