BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet’s future in 2020 debated
Many of the surveyed experts predicted isolated and small-scale violent attacks to try and thwart technology’s march.
“Today’s eco-terrorists are the harbingers of this likely trend,” wrote Ed Lyell, an expert on the internet and education.
“Every age has a small percentage that cling to an overrated past of low technology, low energy, lifestyle.
Hm. Now, I don’t feel like an eco terrorist, and I’m certainly not particularly low technology (she smiles, tapping away at her wireless laptop while submitting post to blog on her own server!) but I don’t actually see that low technology or low energy is particularly overrated. Odd quote.
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ROFL! As someone who *has* to have hook up when camping… actually I know what you mean, it’s one of those things that’s not really a Black and White issue isn’t it?
How about high tech, low energy? Don’t see why we can’t do that.
Hi Jax,
I’ve just had to go from wireless to wire! argghhh … no more blogging whilst feeding babies to sleep!
Hope you are all well! I’ve not been in contact with any of you for ages! Was hoping to catch you at peak camp, but since I didn’t, I’ve been trying to catch up with blogs and blogging. I wonder where Barbara has disappeared to. Is she ok?
I wonder if you will unhibernate me too (I can’t work out how to go about it, or who to contact … but I remember it may be you.)
best wishes,
Sally
Cheers Jax for unhibernating me, and nice to hear from you too …
I’m envious about the flexischooling at a Montessori school. That’s a great thing to be able to do. What sort of age range is it? The ones near us only really did pre-school. Lani tried it and liked it, but it was a lot of driving. Our main reason for not doing it was that they didn’t, in practice, have any children beyond school starting age … which decided us finally to home educate. I’m glad now, but I’d love to have the potential for flexischooling with the correct age range.
Is the MPSheffield group still meeting?
Best wishes
This school goes up to 11, but it’s in Brighouse, so a fair old hike.
MPSheffield formal meetings went out of the window quite some time ago, but I think they still get together every now and then. I know several of the former members read here, so maybe they’ll update us
Did you get my recent e-mail Jax? I’m getting really desperate now for ideas as it’s been over a week now that there’s been severe problems.
I wonder if Ed Lyell would have wanted the factory chimneys of victorian England to continue to belch out crud because doing anything about would be to go against “progress”? Wanting clean air wasn’t and isn’t trying to “cling to an overrated past of low technology, low energy, lifestyle”. Ditto clean drinking water, no increase in floods and hurricanes, etc. Sounds like he’s an education expert in need of education.
What would he feel like if someone hacked his computer or his bank’s and then posted HIS personal info on the internet? Or even happened to pick up a back-up tape from a credit card company that had unencrypted data on it? *sigh* it sounds like (unless he’s being misrepresented) he thinks anyone who doesn’t consider IT an unalloyed good is a rabid Luddite.