The Blast Shack
22 December 2010
We asked Bruce Sterling (who spoke at Webstock ‘09) for his take on Wikileaks.
The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe melancholia.
But it sure does.
via webstock.org.nz
Thank you Bruce Sterling for this great backgrounder on how information is spread and controlled. Once again Science Fiction presages reality.