Bruce Sterling is a science fiction writer and futurist and I suppose a kind of guru prophet and theorist of the network. There are a few people whose opinion on the network I value more than Sterling….here he predicts the coming Post-Industrial era of the network…of course its already here…you are showering in it right now…

Not every Internet address was a dotcom. In fact, dotcoms showed up pretty late in the day, and they were not exactly welcome. There were dot-orgs, dot edus, dot nets, dot govs, and dot localities.

Once upon a time there were lots of social enterprises that lived outside the market; social movements, political parties, mutual aid societies, philanthropies. Churches, criminal organizations — you’re bound to see plenty of both of those in a transition… Labor unions… not little ones, but big ones like Solidarity in Poland; dissident organizations, not hobby activists, big dissent, like Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia.

It seems some people don’t quite know how to use Google Reader, which is a great thing to know how to do. There are lots of good screencasts about that will help. Only two of these are:

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