THESE MACHINES ARE METHODICALLY KILLING OUR SOULS!

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by GoogleBy Bruce Sterling

And Shakespeare. I used to hate Shakespeare, because the teachers would park us in front of the webcam terminals, turn on the Shakespeare lessons and leave the building. But then, somehow, they showed us Macbeth, a play which actually MEANS something to us. Grown-ups don’t understand that (or they wouldn’t be teaching it) but Macbeth is the true authentic story of my generation. This is Macbeth’s world, and us teenagers just live in it. Dig this: those “Three Weird Sisters”, who mysteriously know everything? They can foretell anything, instantly, like Google? Plus, the witches make it all sound really great – only, in real life, it totally sucks? Well, those “Three Weird Sisters” are the “Internet of Things”, they’re “Ubiquitous Computation”, they’re “Ambient Findability”. The truth is written all over the page (or the screen – my school can’t afford to give us any “pages”). Just read that awesome part where they’re boiling pseudocode in their witch-cauldron! They talk like web designers!