Culture. Future. Data. Article. Interesting. Creativity. DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. This piece first appeared in the News Review section of The Sunday Times on August 29th 1999.
A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve. It is a very British trait – natural, perhaps, for a country which has lost an empire and found Mr Blobby – to be so suspicious of change. But the change is real. I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. The Technium. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton.