Stephen Fry's lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world
by Cory Doctorow from on (#35AXD)
Stephen Fry's hour-long Shannon Luminary Lecture at Bell Labs tries to bridge the despair of a world where technology enables bullying, greed and surveillance; the optimism of the early hopes for the internet, and a hopeful vision of how we can minimize the former and maximize the latter. (more")