View Full Version : The Web's New Wasteland


Boyd Ostroff
January 13th, 2006, 09:32 AM
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/internet/10261695.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

At the breakfast table, Gates said, you can look at images of your children's drawings, in case talking to them is too stressful. He imagines family members tracking each other's locations on virtual maps -- overriding cherished notions of privacy and trust. "We're able to track everybody and know what's going on," Gates said, without apparent irony.

Chris Hurd
February 4th, 2006, 02:03 PM
Yowza. Orwellian, ain't it?