Where are you reading this essay right now? At home? On the way to work in the bus next to people with newspapers and all other kinds of printed stuff? Could you imagine reading these lines from a little computer screen that can be found everywhere: on the table at home, on the windows of the bus? You simply switch it on and choose from the menu ". Of course, you can imagine this since we are now all used to the Internet, which is the precursor of what Michio Kaku calls `ubiquitous computing': a time when all computers are connected to each other and hundreds of them will help a single person to fulfill everyday duties. Sounds pretty good! But hold on for a moment. It makes one a bit scared to read in Kaku's book how the computer revolution could shape our lives already by the year 2020. Sometimes it sound like it is no longer for us to decide but for a machine that controls how we behave. We might lose some important things: like diversity and individuality in our lives. Is it not......
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