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Listed below are comments made by Joe_Librarian between Friday, 3rd April 2009 and Tuesday, 6th October 2009.

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Inspiration wanted: help us name the series #bbcnamestorm 11:57am on 06 Oct 2009 I've spent some time of late wandering around parts of Birmingham where the Industrial Revolution kicked off so astonishingly quickly. The Boulton and Watt steam engine, cotton spinning machines, easier methods of iron founding, the refinement of concrete, discoveries such as oxygen. These and many, many more happened in just a few decades, often with one discovery becoming an enabler for another. Industrial technology quickly spread and much of society lurched from an agrarian state to an industrial one.

Therefore, "Digital Revolution" seems most appropriate, as that's what it is. Society - globally - has very quickly leapt up to another level of what it can do because of a rapidly emerging set of new, or greatly improved, inter-related technologies. Just like the late 18th century, but with digital data instead of steam and iron.
Rushes Sequences - Tim Berners-Lee interview - London (Video) 00:21am on 06 Oct 2009 This is absorbing viewing, and I appreciate the rushes being put up, with scripts, pre-presentation.
Do anarchists tweet? 10:02am on 03 Apr 2009 The anarchists using iPhones tweet was one of mine from Wednesday:

http://twitter.com/Joe_Librarian/status/1430756452

It seemed perfectly natural, how some of them were using iPhones. The GPS and map capabilities means they could quickly work out where to go to next. The web-based news kept them up to date with what was being reported. Email, Twitter, phone were quick methods of disseminating information.

Quick: Yes, even if they were being monitored, the immediacy of information collection and dissemination would make it very difficult for the police to track what was going on. It was admirable to see how skilled one group of them were at using technology to organise and re-organise.

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