These machines are METHODICALLY KILLING OUR SOULS!

In case you didn't see it, Bruce Sterling has a short fiction piece in the New Scientist, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google".

That creepy "differential permissioning" sure saves a lot of trouble for grown-ups. Increasing chunks of the world are just... magically off limits. It's a weird new regime where every mall and every school and every bus and train and jet is tagged and tracked and ambient and pervasive and ubiquitous and geolocative... Jesus, I love those words... Where was I?

Sweetness.

[via last month's ish of the everyware times]