Will you be assimilated?
Future of tech will make you look like the Borg
“You look like a Borg,” people told me as I tried out head-mounted video displays for this month’s column.
It wasn’t just an objective observation, like saying “You look like Tom Hanks”. It was a judgment on what I’d become, or was in danger of becoming: a real-life equivalent of the hapless victims from Star Trek lore whose bodies are taken over by machines.
[Read the rest of Will You Be Assimilated? Reprinted in PC Advisor]Our Common Journey
Towards Cooperative Environmental Management
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I began this book in 1996, partly as a retrospect on progress since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. By most accounts, the results of Rio have been disappointing. Though the world community pledged a huge increase in development aid for the environment, scarcely any countries have kept their promises. While we signed a convention to limit deforestation, figures show that the loss of tropical and temperate forests continues at a brisk pace. And while we pledged to integrate environmental and economic concerns under the rubric of ‘sustainable development’, we’ve seen the growth of a massive global trade and investment regime which scarcely registers environmental concerns.…
