Teh interesting tech news stub thread

[Sforza]

Really good article on the current state of the internet, the future, and where we all play into it. Yes, it's a bit long, but it's very insightful so it's worth it.

The internet: Everything you ever need to know

In spite of all the answers the internet has given us, its full potential to transform our lives remains the great unknown. Here are the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age – and where it's taking us

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/201...ed-to-know

Edit: I liked this phrase.

Many years ago, the cultural critic Neil Postman, one of the 20th century's most perceptive critics of technology, predicted that the insights of two writers would, like a pair of bookends, bracket our future. Aldous Huxley believed that we would be destroyed by the things we love, while George Orwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear.