sooner - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:20:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 sooner - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 William Gibson: the future will find you out https://www.quakerranter.org/william_gibson_the_future_will/ https://www.quakerranter.org/william_gibson_the_future_will/#respond Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:50:47 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=398 An interesting article on George Orwell and the future we’ve become. What would Orwell have thought about the big brother of national security and the never-ending war on terror. And what would he have thought of the internet and blogs? Here’s a snippet:

“In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out.

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