“It would be naïve to identify the Internet with the Enlightenment. It has the potential to diffuse knowledge beyond anything imagined by Jefferson; but while it was being constructed, link by hyperlink, commercial interests did not sit idly on the sidelines. They want to control the game, to take it over, to own it. They […]

I’ve just finished reading The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt.  It’s a brilliantly fast 600 pages.  It’s science fiction…I guess?  The lines delineating how things like this are classified are fairly blurry.  It’s got sci fi elements, and adventure elements, and buddy story elements, and gods and self creating steam driven metal entities, […]