The main reason I didn’t put the predictions more than five years is because the ebook technology is changing very rapidly so I don’t feel comfortable making any predictions that far in the future. It also isn’t that relevant to the discussion in question since it isn’t that incredibly likely that one will have the same ebook reader now as one has in five years.
Regarding 1- right, most of the probability goes into extreme unanticipated events, although to be blunt, it seems like your politics are showing a bit in a mindkilling fashion. To only briefly touch on the mindkilling issues- the Tea Partiers have shown little interest in censorship or the like. Moreover, in the cases of both Stalin and Hitler, the censorship wasn’t at all a gradual thing. If one does have advanced warning about any censorship regime the e-readers have a really simple solution- turn off the external connection and don’t let any of their servers talk to it.
2 falls under what I discussed earlier in terms of borrowing and related issues. Those are all issues I agree are much more serious. There’s no question that ereaders do raise serious problems. I just don’t think that removal of material is one that is a high concern.
The main reason I didn’t put the predictions more than five years is because the ebook technology is changing very rapidly so I don’t feel comfortable making any predictions that far in the future. It also isn’t that relevant to the discussion in question since it isn’t that incredibly likely that one will have the same ebook reader now as one has in five years.
Regarding 1- right, most of the probability goes into extreme unanticipated events, although to be blunt, it seems like your politics are showing a bit in a mindkilling fashion. To only briefly touch on the mindkilling issues- the Tea Partiers have shown little interest in censorship or the like. Moreover, in the cases of both Stalin and Hitler, the censorship wasn’t at all a gradual thing. If one does have advanced warning about any censorship regime the e-readers have a really simple solution- turn off the external connection and don’t let any of their servers talk to it.
2 falls under what I discussed earlier in terms of borrowing and related issues. Those are all issues I agree are much more serious. There’s no question that ereaders do raise serious problems. I just don’t think that removal of material is one that is a high concern.