Monday 8 September: IT - the root of all evil

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People like blaming IT for the ills of society. The recession, for example, is our fault because IT has turned banking from a real solid business into a fantasy land of hedge funds and speculation. We are responsible for international terrorism, because it is modern communciations that makes possible secret networks across continetnts.

Similarly pornorgraphy, an evil that, to hear the way some people talk, did not exist before the internet. Ridiculous, clearly. So it did not unduly alarm me when Charlie mentioned that Dave was making mistakes. He often forgets details after the third bottle.