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Archive of entries posted on 11th February 2009

Apropos my last post

The future is here. While I have reservations about wide scale surveillance and recording every e-mail I send it seems very sensible to equip the Persons in Blue with personal video recorders. Especially if it reduces the amount of paperwork the Police have to fill in when the could be out on the streets.

Halting State

I’ve just finished reading Halting State by Charles Stross. It’s an enjoyable SciFi whodunit mystery set in the near future involving a robbery in a MMORPG. The book is presented in the second person narrative which is unusual but helps give a sense of the setting. It’s set in a recently independent Scotland where technology [...]