I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google

September 21, 2006 | Source: NewScientist.com news service

“We teenagers have to live in ‘controlled spaces.’ Radio-frequency ID tags, real-time locative systems, global positioning systems, smart doorways, security videocams…” says science fiction writer Bruce Sterling in this spoof on a “pervasive and ubiquitous and geolocative” future.

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Also see Bruce Sterling’s “The Internet of Things