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The Assanges were improving, redesigning, upgrading. A WikiWar broke out in Azerbaijan. BoingBoing freedom fighters stormed a closed-network centre in upstate New York and liberated the AIs held within. Doctorow went on CNN to disclaim responsibility. E-book pirates off the coast of Somalia declared independence from the Internet.

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The NEF argues to achieve more satisfying lives we need to challenge social norms and reset the industrial clock in our heads. It sees the 21-hour week as integral to this for two reasons: it will redistribute paid work, offering the hope of a more equal society (right now too many are overworked, or underemployed). At the same time, it would give us all time for the things we value but rarely have time to do well such as care for our family, travel, read or continue learning (as opposed to merely consuming).

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Climate: the current remaining question marks over climate change will have been answered, and the answers won’t be anything pleasant. Climate change denialism will probably be about as respectable as Lysenkoism is today — an intellectually corrupt pseudo-science emerging at the behest of a bankrupt ideology.