Reading news items on slashdot sometimes gets me down, just read the article about Mr47 / Winny, sort of hope that things don't go that way in Australia, hope that the FTA with the US gets voted down so we don't have changes to our copyright act. I think that copyright should last only 10 years. As tech keeps changing and makes the old stuff out of date, there is a big chance that lots of stuff could be lost.
I don't know how to feel about the changes that the next few years are going to bring, good or bad all these improvements in technology like nano or bio are going to be available to the rich at first, so that others that could benefit most from it are likely to be the last to get it.
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. -- Bertrand Russell