Today's Quote 03.18.10

Okay, this is rediculous (even if I can't spell ridiculous; hey, where's the spell-check?)

Even in the larger context of the quote (covered elsewhere in Headlines today), it strains credibility:

The legal mapping of cyberspace in the west is more chaotic. But we are now witnessing the establishment of myriad laws and rules by legislators and in the courts. In a hearing this week at Blackfriars Crown Court in London following a major cybercrime trial, Harendra de Silva QC put his finger on it when he argued that "we are entering a world where almost any human interaction of any kind will require use of the internet".

What may be actually true is that "the world we are entering" will find most financial transactions pushed to internet-enabled systems, and that is certainly to be noted. But let's be clear that this isn't some passive wave that is washing over us. This space that we're in is the result of many little and big decisions, many of them mediated by national and international governmental polices -- policies which Benton tracks for me, and for which I am grateful.

Not that it matters, but I would make a direct counter-argument to de Silva, that in the future, true human interaction will be most distinctly defined by the absence of the internet. As legal, financial, professional and some personal interactions become digital, the social animal in us will hunger for the kind of person to person relationships that will never be duplicated on line.

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