Disruptive technologies
The G20 protest was a pagent nearly as vacant in substance as the summit upon which it was based
Welcome to my G20 blog entry. As someone with a keen interest in the crossroads where activism, technology and ideology meet Weeks like this one, in which the 20 countries identified as the global economic drivers (and their various hangers on) weeks like this are what I have instead of Christmas. Demonstrators are everywhere about everything and using all sorts of different means to get their points across. I took Thursday to check it all out in person and followed the rest via emails, text and avid news reading. I blogged most of this in morning or evening commutes.
Monday, March 30 / 10:14 pm / Blackfriers Station
These are interesting times for big ideas. The air in The City has an electric current of fear. There’s no real frenzy, but you can feel the occasional tingle. The G20 economic summit hits the ExCeL Exhibition centre in the Docklands on Thursday and presidents and anarchists are swarming in, attracted to the scent of an open wound, both hoping to feed off it, all of them using it as an opportunity to float grand schemes, new world orders or at least quick fixes.
In the test of history, those who warned against war crimes have been forgiven.
