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It's creeping out of science fiction and beginning to present serious ethical, actually ethics is a little too abstract, major contemporary issues… As this article points out the debate may well follow the pattern of the GM debate…

Interesting quote: "“Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years,” Dr. Horvitz said. “Technologists are replacing religion, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.”

The Kurzweil version of technological utopia has captured imaginations in Silicon Valley. This summer an organization called the Singularity University began offering courses to prepare a “cadre” to shape the advances and help society cope with the ramifications."

Interesting analysis, although mass location tech/mobile web access makes this very different the incredible versatility of twitter (a big reason for it's success IMO)….

"…in a definitive sign that Twitter has corporate users on its mind, the company yesterday launched a 'special guide' for businesses called Twitter 101.

"The guide provides an overview of Twitter written specifically for companies. It describes what Twitter is, how companies can get started, the Twitter lingo, best practices and a handful of case studies."

Um. Wow. (Via a personal branding interview with Robert scoble by dan scwabel…)

"Google is not liable for defamatory comments that appear in news articles, blogs and forums displayed in its search results, a high court judge in London has concluded in a landmark ruling for UK defamation law.

"The case, against Google's US and UK operations, had been brought by London-based Metropolitan International Schools.

"MIS runs distance learning courses in games development under the name Train2Game. MIS launched legal action over comments on the forum of a website that it claimed were defamatory and that appeared in Google's search results."