I once asked Google how I could make an atomic bomb. Google after all knows everything. But all I got was a recipe for a cocktail. Nevertheless Google does know almost everything. There is no need for reference books of any sort - dictionaries, biographies, geography and any other -ography. All of them are stored in this search engine that has pulverised the opposition and come out on top. Now all the knowledge that anyone needs is stored in a small computer. The next step is to develop an implant so that we can all have one and carry it about as a spare brain. This is not pie in the sky or science fiction; it is almost here. In this way it will be possible for people to know nothing about anything but at the touch of a button know everything about everything. "Oh brave new world that has such wonders in it"
Dave is watching the Test Match at the Oval. What a shame that he and the schoolboys are not doing as well as the England team which is building up a big total. Instead he has troubles abroad - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya - and at home - riots, unemployment, no growth - that he has not got the guts to tackle. One thing he is is sure to regret is the recognition of the rebels in Libya. When that nice Colonel Gaddafi has gone the country will dissolve into anarchy for a time to emerge as yet another Islamic state. I feel a letter to him is due - after all it is only two years ago that I told him to abjure the fifty per cent rate of income tax and now he is hinking of doing it. This would require action and Dave does not do action. So it is bad luck for us all.
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