It's on BBC World Service - play again, or podcast - at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm This is a 15 years out view - ie 2010. And the program is made up of a variety of people's views: Accra in Ghana being a central financial powerhouse for Africa: open access/massive interconnectivity to information via the citizens register (hmmmm!); individual access and registration has to be paid for, via a net passport (who controls the sale of these?); and you need that to use any national, government service (health, or whatever); identity theft is clearly still an issue - trust your government that you (post-Iraq?) elected? How does that guarantee security, with the UN ensuring systems security? Hmmmmmm! Much the rest of it conceded that most of today's problems (worms, viruses, etc) will still be with us! Enjoy Dominic --- Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
It is amazing how media outlets are portaying assent or dissent depending on their perspective. On friday, I was listening to the bbc's fictionalization of internet governance in the future. It was fairly enlightening as to the british government perspective, if not really the BT's. The bbc podcast was in their 'go digital' series i think.
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