Trolls ‘R Us

A very sobering story about the amplifier that is the Internet: when trolls run wild. When I read John Brunner’s fiction many years ago (The Sheep Look Up, Stand On Zanzibar, The Shockwave Rider), I felt a frisson of horror; aghast that anyone could think that society could ever be like this.

 

Hello, welcome to the real world of 2008. It’s going to get much worse. There are over 6.6 billion of us and we have the technology to make it so.