As Wai-Jeng ate, he periodically tapped the PgDn key with the end of one of his chopsticks. He was amused to read in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle – a newspaper normally inaccessible in China – about a brawl that had broken out at the University of Rochester. Computer-science students there had been secretly collaborating on an attempt to purge Webmind, and they were overheard by three English majors who objected to what they were planning. More damage could apparently be inflicted by throwing a hardcover of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare than a pocket calculator.

„Wonder“, Robert J. Sawyer, 2011

Die WWW-Trilogie von Robert J. Sawyer.

It is very now…

Alles drin, künstliche Intelligenz, Teenagersex, Post-Privacy… Und wie Fran da oben so reizend sagt, very now, aber es ist doch ein “Transparenz ist toll”-Gedanke mit ein wenig Story. Nicht das es sich deswegen schlecht lesen würde…