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Was Orwell on to something?

Just finished 1984.  Yes, I know, it’s taken me 31 years to read it, but whatevs.

So, in the speculative story, the collective memory of the people is tampered with manually by the state and truth is manipulated. With the digital revolution on our doorstep, we are edging closer to the digitization of our entire collective memory. How easy would it be to tamper with?

I mean, I go back and edit tweets. Come on, we’ve all done it.

What do you think?

So pretty soon all our data (and I mean all of it) will be in the clouds (cloud computing), meaning it will be held on a server somewhere with an unknwon SYSADMIN responsible for it…who knows what could happen, or what may be revealed…Web 3.0 is the data web btw (the guy who invented the web talks about it on TED).

Vewy interwesting..

I’d be keen to know your thoughts.

Also, I am obsessed with dystopian fiction at the mo and have my own young adult’s novel on the go…any suggestions for the reading list?

Anna :-)

Also, take a look at the video here and the link below to see the end of the book as we know it (well the beginning of something new anyway)

www.kiwamedia.com

Summer Reading List

Had a lovely stroll through Herne Bay this morning. Highlights include a cupcake shop and a shop selling vintage posters and the like.

I picked up a few gems from Dominion Secondhand Books:

  • The World Split Open – Women Poets 1552-1950
  • Denis Glover Selected Poems
  • The Rock Woman – James K Baxter
  • Bratsk Station – Poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • The Stories of Frank Sargeson

So I guess I will be busy for a while. I am still only halfway through the Time Traveller’s Wife. Will post up my thoughts when I  am done.

Fell asleep over Sargeson in the cafe, but don’t blame him. Too many late nights.

Anna :-)