Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution

Castolari writes "Here is an interesting interview of Arthur C. Clarke and his views on regulating communications, as well as what he sees as the past, present, and future of information management."

Look Who's Talking

[Colonel Cholling]

I thought "information pollution" was what he did to us when he published that dreadful 3001 book.

Biggest Current Source of Information Pollution

[DoctorMabuse]

http://www.sco.com

Information Pollution in my Inbox

[Waffle Iron]

My God, it's full of spam!!

From the article:

[IANAL(BIAILS)]

even bad TV is preferable to no TV at all

I don't know... has he seen what the networks are showing these days???

Gore?

[phalse phace]

"His science fiction books and science facts have inspired generations of astronauts, scientists and technological innovators. Among them is Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer engineer who invented the World Wide Web..."

I thought that was Al... Oh, never mind!

He's got a point

[Ignis Flatus]

Indeed, there is material which virtually everyone would agree should be kept out. Sadistic pornography, incitement to violence against racial or ethnic minorities are just two examples.

There really is a shortage of good soft porn nowadays.

fortunatly

[geekoid]

We have the slashdot effect to reduce this pollution.

How ironic!

[rknop]

An article about information pollution, linked from Slashdot! Who would've thunk it?

-Rob

Re:Biggest Current Source of Information Pollution

[Stiletto]

I thought it was:

http://goatse.cx

I know I felt polluted after seeing that.

Re:Smart guy! :)

[Anonymous Coward]

If I was in control
not how to tie the world in knots with controls

So you'd control the world into not being controlled , eh?