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Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution

Posted by michael on from the cough-cough dept.

Castolari writes "Here is an interesting interview of Arthur C. Clarke and his views on regulating communications, as well as what he sees as the past, present, and future of information management."

10 of 213 comments (clear)

  1. Look Who's Talking by Colonel+Cholling · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought "information pollution" was what he did to us when he published that dreadful 3001 book.

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    I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
  2. Biggest Current Source of Information Pollution by DoctorMabuse · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.sco.com

    1. Re:Biggest Current Source of Information Pollution by Stiletto · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought it was:

      http://goatse.cx

      I know I felt polluted after seeing that.

  3. Information Pollution in my Inbox by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    My God, it's full of spam!!

  4. From the article: by IANAL(BIAILS) · · Score: 5, Funny

    even bad TV is preferable to no TV at all I don't know... has he seen what the networks are showing these days???

  5. Gore? by phalse+phace · · Score: 1, Funny
    "His science fiction books and science facts have inspired generations of astronauts, scientists and technological innovators. Among them is Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer engineer who invented the World Wide Web..."

    I thought that was Al... Oh, never mind!

  6. He's got a point by Ignis+Flatus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed, there is material which virtually everyone would agree should be kept out. Sadistic pornography, incitement to violence against racial or ethnic minorities are just two examples.

    There really is a shortage of good soft porn nowadays.

  7. fortunatly by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have the slashdot effect to reduce this pollution.

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    The Kruger Dunning explains most post on /. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
  8. How ironic! by rknop · · Score: 5, Funny

    An article about information pollution, linked from Slashdot! Who would've thunk it?

    -Rob

  9. Re:Smart guy! :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If I was in control
    not how to tie the world in knots with controls

    So you'd control the world into not being controlled , eh?