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Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness
securitas writes "Declan McCullagh interviews Bruce Sterling about Total Information Awareness (renamed Terrorist Information Awareness and raising concerns) or 'Poindexter's nutty scheme' as Sterling thinks of it. He predicts TIA will destabilize the government and lead to internal KGB-style coups. Whether you agree with him or not it makes for thought-provoking reading."
Worried, maybe, fear, never.
Iraq was not at all stable, if it was the Bath party would not have taken power.
You dumb f*ck. Germans didn't fear the government! They loved Hitler. Hitler then created fear between germany's people, not the people and the government(which was my point!)
"Microsoft paid $0 taxes in 1999" Ha. Let's see proof. If they paid $1 in real estate taxes/vehicle sticker/sales tax on computer/etc then you sir are a liar. The rest of your comments are just as funny.
"dumb conservative", clearly I ment one who mixes up fascism and socialism.
Thanks for the laugh. What a warped memory.
Well, geez, of course I have heard of Sturgeon's Law. I'm part of the SF subculture. Just as you apparently are.
That doesn't mean that mainstream literature lovers are going to have heard of it.
And the difference is- everything SF gets gathered into special bookstores, is published by special publishers, is sold to the special niche market for SF books. In some regards it almost gets to seem like 'Short Bus' Special Ed programs.
A lot of the dreck wouldn't be publishable in any other market. Or at the least, it would be remaindered and pulped faster, and not hoarded away in cult-oriented dusty specialty bookshelves. The great SF writers reach beyond the genre and become something more than SF authors. J.G. Ballard is an example of that.
Sturgeon paints with too broad a brush.