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It won't be humorless, iron-fisted or sexless, if that's what they're asking. I'll be one of the Talking Authorities on KQED's Forum Friday morning at 9am PDST. For Bay Area folks, that's at 88.5FM. For the rest of the world, there's a live webcast. The subject is "The future of the Internet." Welcome to the Real World, Neo If you want livid proof that the Cluetrain conversation has moved in a decided deeper direction, and that The Matrix is a metaphor for marketing (think about it), read Chris Locke's Feedmag interview with Ian Clarke of Freenet. In case you haven't clicked on that link, here's how it starts:
 At first, the world at large ignored the Internet, missed its significance, scoffed, then jumped in with both feet, thinking it was a bandwagon, asked the wrong questions about how to make money with it, got too excited when it seemed to be something it wasn't, got too depressed when it turned out to be what it is. Mirrored fractal nets within nets: the collective intelligence of the human race unfolding in real time -- and for the first time, on its own terms. The Internet routes around obstacles; the bigger the obstacle, the more joyous the detour. The humorless power of the state, the iron-fisted control demanded by the corporation, the sexless desire insinuated by broadcast advertising -- all are falling to networked imagination. Whoa.
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