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My first forecast, on "Video in the Year 2000", with the ubiquitous switchable, editable videophone, has yet to come about. Most of us still lack the bandwidth necessary for more than matchbox size Skype images, Courtesy of Ian Brown you can now read my third, attempt, on the potential impact of a world of ubiquitous intelligent systems as well as on-line communications: "Learning for Change". Yesterday I was in a "heavy" conversation on the introversion of current debate on cybersecurity, information governance, privacy and anti-corruption legislation. There was great concern that inexperienced ministers will be maneuovred into expediting the flight of wealth-creating business offshore because they lack the global vision of those who built an Empire, (often by mistake), on the back of trade (not the other way round). I was asked to put my 2004 paper on "The Global Electronic Bazaar" on line so that one of those prsent could quote from it to an American audience, 

Andrew Yeomans, who occasionally posts comments to this blog, sent me some very thoughtful comments in response to my entry on the proposals in the Digital Britain Interim Report for a Rights Agency. He believes it will be difficult to avoid, with the amount of well-funded vested interest in exploiting copyright.

The Internet is the most concentrated and regulated communications system the world has ever known. Players like Google or Microsoft take a far larger revenue share of the markets within which they operate than Standard Oil, Ma Bell or IBM ever did. Meanwhile over 500 agencies and regulators in the UK alone claim powers to access traffic data or stored content: albeit almost none are capable of securing what they demands.