Yatterings

I’ve literally just seen this posted at Digg.com - Asimov’s favourite short story. Coincidentally, my friend Steve lent me his cassette tape of Childhood’s End which I’m listening to on the way to work. Having just read Cory Doctorow’s new collection, its strange to listen to tales of Uplift via technology and how little things have really changed in fifty odd years.

In an interview to be published shortly on the site, Cory Doctorow mentioned that he had been thinking about the future and I wonder whether the Singularity is a current version of the Uplift in the 1950s and 1960s?