Children no longer see their environment split into an online and offline world, they would if anything like to see those Star Trek novelties become real and so too would I

A quiet lunchtime read turns into a warning about the rapid pace of widespread technological change. Luddites beware!

A belief that the web uncovers the truth (and that we can use this to improve society) underpins a desire to protect the open and uncapturable nature of the internet. The web will out the truth. Why fight it. If we don’t like what we see – its not the web that needs fixing.

The net has been blamed for giving radical groups a voice – but they were ther all along. Perhaps the web is just forcing us to finally do something about these groups, and to address the root causes of unrest.