The other day while going to work, some guy decided to change lanes while I was turning right onto a busy street. As I completed the turn, he came out of no where, honking, and narrowly dodged my car. So, what's wrong here? Well, number one, he didn't use a turn signal. Two, it's illegal to make a lane change in an intersection. Three, he wasn't even paying attention.
So this leads me to one conclusion: invisible cars are a bad idea.
Think about it for a minute. Having an invisible car would pretty cool for doing a bank robbery, speeding on...
Recently, I wrote about the concept of an Internet that knows no boundaries in relation to how content is distributed and consumed, but today I would like to talk about it in the broader sense of free speech and censorship.
I find Internet censorship to be a deplorable concept, not because it prevents me from consuming things that a jurisdictional entity considers inappropriate or immoral, but because it stymies the legitimate aggregation and consumption of ideas.
One of the more interesting side effects of the Information Revolution has been the unification of our people--not in some patriotic or otherwise political sense, but...