
Amelia sits back on a chair with her legs spread, like boys in the hood. She stares down at the floor, bites her lips, hides her hands inside the sleeves of her black hoodie and catches both between her knees. Then she dives into the future.
Not so long from now, 15-year old kids will connect via wireless to your car and cut the brakes. Your children will have their personality dictated by Google algorithms, which already record everything you do on the Internet and deliver what ‘they’ think is good. Your brain will be a mosaic of trademarks.
Your freedom is in danger — not that old-school freedom that some idiot rants about on TV. Life is becoming tangled with the Internet, and the freedom of the Internet is being decided as we speak. What the 1960s were to Civil Rights, these years will be to digital rights. Down with copyright.. long live anonymity!
Amelia is talking about all of this in such clear, well-spoken English that I always have the feeling she’s pulling her sentences out of a water well. There’s a strange echo in here as well. We’re in a large, empty apartment at Unirii Square in Bucharest. In one room there’s a table with laptops clustered all over. Around it, hackers are drinking beer from plastic bottles, trying to crack open a server while discussing the fate of the world. « Citește tot articolul! «





