That sum may be a trifle to the technocratic, but I don't think computer ownership in the UK has broken the 60% mark yet where I believe we are in the vanguard of Europe.  

This revolution would be no different to any other. A minority, however large, will benefit enormously, and a majority will be left behind more or less where they were.

Part-time provision in libraries simply allows the temporarily poor technocratic to keep up, it does not enable others to catch up. Glib statements maybe but it's how I see it.

I just don't believe in utopian visions. We've had the "energy too cheap to meter" promises before, the Marvel comic visions of the future of leisured societies and somehow they only seem to come true for a favoured few.

No, I'm not dystopian either but I think we have to work harder for an egalitarian future than just assume it is the inevitable result of technological advances. After all, the advances are owned by the current elites and they haven't impressed me with their generosity yet. They ain't giving nothing away.

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