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The title of this issue's Editorial section is a shameless rip-off of a section that used to run in Omni, the influential and very cool 80s magazine of "Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy." The section in Omni talked about advances in science and technology and where they would lead us. The title played on the actual verbal tense – the word "will" was used a lot in the articles, and the fact that, well, it was about the future.
Dear Ubuntu User Reader,
The title of this issue's Editorial section is a shameless rip-off of a section that used to run in Omni , the influential and very cool 80s magazine of "Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy ." The section in Omni talked about advances in science and technology and where they would lead us. The title played on the actual verbal tense – the word "will" was used a lot in the articles, and the fact that, well, it was about the future.
These pieces, if memory serves, tended towards the optimistic: advances in medicine would make us live longer, advances in engineering would take us to other planets, advances in computing would give us robot companions that would do dangerous and boring chores.
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I recently wrote a piece for the 2016 Open Source Yearbook . My piece was called "5 Initiatives that pushed the free software envelope in Europe in 2016" (no, there was no subtitle like "Number 3 will make you cry!"). The piece looked at legislation and policies adopted in the public sector in Germany, Brussels (for the whole of the EU), the Netherlands, Russia, and Bulgaria.
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