An Observer story on information gleaned from the British census shows growing polarisation between rich and poor segments of society, and a disintegration of "established forms of social cohesion - chiefly the family."
November 2003 Archives
Saturday's Guardian had a story about commuters from London starting to commute from furthe afield -- in this case, Spain -- thanks to Europe's cheap flights. I found the story interesting for three reasons:
A couple of fairly new weblogs I've been meaning to link to for a while:
- Future Now
- The Institute for the Future's weblog, mostly technology-oriented by the look of it.
- Terra Nova
- Edward Castronova (who I've mentioned before) and pals' fascinating weblog on multiple-player online gaming and "other realms of emergent collective reality."