51 years and one day?
May just be somewhat akin to "the day after." The events around ARPANET and impact of the IoT may be more profound now than ever. In an world where we are experiencing the impact of an increasing digital divide, where we are selectively being marshalled into the realm of have and have not's; the power and control of information may just find us at an undesirable cross roads or watershed pointing to the future. A future where those who control information just may be controlling each of us around the globe. Wonder what the founders of the internet would say about all the implications unfolding today?
Observer of People, Places and Things
4 年Then again Tom Clancy may have been on to something. "The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people." Others have said similar variations of the same. There just may be something to all the lunacy running amuck.