Chicken Little

Doesn't it seems more likely that instead of just having a list of verboten words/subjects Google simply searches everything but chooses not to display results when there's adult content? that would explain some of the non-intuitive words like "cuckold."

...is what's funny to me. Their marriage will only be legally recognized in Sosaria.

He's (at best) a mediocre tech writer given to sweeping pronouncements.

I used to imagine that in the future instead of news-stands there will be "news-butchers" who just print up publications quickly on demand.

I've gotten so used to getting my news online that when I'm reading an actual print publication I automatically go looking for the comments section at the end of every article.

I think there's always going to have to be a hardcopy option.

If you believe that then you have not been reading the right-wing blogs - there are people out there who claim they're flying their flags at half-mast until Obama's out of office.

Back in the 90's I got a job working for company that produced pre-employment tests. They sold them as separate "instruments": the core test that was meant to measure honesty and several other add-ons that covered things like drug use, customer service, math skills, etc.

The honesty test asked questions like "if you knew a relative was stealing from their employer would you report them." The drug test asked straight-up questions about how often you did particular illegal drugs. Any admission of drug use would fail you.

I had to take that test and the drug test to get the job and had no problem, even though I absolutely lied my way through most of it.

I would get into arguments with the staff psychologists about how easy it was to fake but they would always pull out the chart showing the neat bell curve of passes and fails based on hundreds of real test results.

I then concluded that the test was actually a veiled intelligence test. If you failed you must be stupid, either that or you were too honest to get the job.

from Wikipedia:
"filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin commissioned Dick to write a screenplay for an Ubik film. Dick completed the screenplay, turning it in within a month, but Gorin never filmed the project. The screenplay was published in 1985 as Ubik: The Screenplay (ISBN-13: 978-0911169065)."

I've read interviews with Dick where he described how he envisioned the film. The book describes modern technology devolving into more primitive forms. He said that he wanted the film to be shot on the highest quality media of the time and then progressively worse media like 16mm film and then black and white 8mm. I'm doubting that this film will be shot this way. Amazing book though.