Was on the tube yesterday and saw this rather cool ad about the Information Revolution, Steve also captured this in his blog: Get a free Information Revolution t-shirt as did Valley Wag with a slightly more jaded view point.

Some great videos from people talking about the information revolution and the benefits and concerns that we could all have in this field, check out the following neat video from a journalist talking on the topic:

http://www.information-revolution.org/videos.php?video=journo.flv&id_num=5&textVid=0

Of course if you do want the T-Shirt then grab one here: http://www.information-revolution.org/requestshirt.php

Interesting stuff for the future of your rights, be they copyright or just personal rights. So i guess questions I could ask would be as follows:

  1. Could these view points be aimed at any successful company?(I remember the passport days and the trouble Microsoft got in when we asked everyone to sign in using Passport - privacy and trust issues aplenty)
  2. Does the rise of the Search Engine make the importance, availability and prevalence of personal data on the web all the more important?
  3. Should Government respond through policy or how can we control what people know versus have access to?
  4. Should we all just chill out and let the market determine what happens ?(guess we should ask Amnesty for some stories there)

A hugely interesting topic and not one I want to take this blog into too far, but keen to highlight the topical nature of the technology areas I work within and the nature of future access to information.

Enjoy!