Charles Platt
Charles Platt
Charles Plattis an author, journalist and computer programmer. He relocated from England to the United States during 1970, is a naturalized U.S. citizen and has one daughter, SF editor Rose Fox. Platt is the nephew of Robert Platt, Baron Platt of Grindleford...
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Date of Birth9 May 1945
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
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As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.
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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
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Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
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Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.
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A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
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The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
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