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Mr. Niven, In "A gift from Earth", you make the point that technological changes precipitate changes in popular mainstream ethics. What technological changes do you see having the most impact on ethics over the next thirty years and what are the changes you see them causing?
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Where freedom of speech applies to EVERYBODY, even the ones with unpopular causes. Hint: popular causes don't NEED freedom of speech.
Hint: If freedom of speech applied to everybody, you wouldn't have "Free Speech Zones".
And I don't particularly like the idea of the 'Net resting in the hands of the government who gave us the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, a total disregard for even their own judicial process, and one of the worst educational systems in the developed world.
But hey, that's just the opinion of an educated foreigner, isn't it?
Mr. Niven,
In "A gift from Earth", you make the point that technological changes precipitate changes in popular mainstream ethics. What technological changes do you see having the most impact on ethics over the next thirty years and what are the changes you see them causing?