The Prophesy .

There has been a terrible mistake. A small error made by a scribe dressed in 
robes and dusty sandals while translating the bible for the authorised version. Perhaps it was a Friday afternoon and the hot Italian sun was blazing in the window and he became distracted. Just a tiny slip made a handful of years after Christ has meant a great prophesy has come to pass and no one has noticed. The geek has indeed inherited the earth.

Those thin, weedy people with bad breath and no friends have finally emerged from their lonely and isolated bedrooms, blossomed in the halls of education where they studied the black magic of computer science and gone to live in a world where you can have hundreds of like-minded friends without actually speaking to anyone or meeting them face to face. However, the non-geeks are not taking this lying down and in the geek El Dorado know as Silicone Valley things are not going so well. There seems to be a twin pronged backlash.

Firstly, the San Francisco locals are mighty peeved that the high earning employees of Google and Facebook are moving into their neighbourhoods, pushing the rents up astronomically and forcing them out. The indigenous poor people have taken to stoning the luxury buses laid on the take the employees to their high-tech temples and hassling them at the bus stops while they are waiting. Just like being back at school for the poor nerds no doubt. They'll be having their lunch money stolen next.

The second prong seems to be the objection some people feel to others wearing the Google glasses. This seems to be a bridge to far for many people. The concern seems to be that people are recording friends and strangers alike without their consent. It seems we are being 'papped' all the time and with the recent furore over the 'upskirt photo' issue and the fact that you could appear on You tube for the world to gawk at any time they do have a valid point. A number of the bars and restaurants in the Silicone Valley area have banned them to protect their patrons' privacy.

The attitude of these new lords of the earth is to accelerate the pace of technological change whether or not us less tech savvy mortals want it, need it or can even keep up. There are plans afoot where I live to install a driverless car system which runs from the train station to the shopping centre. According to my local paper the general consensus is that no one will use it and it's a waste of money but the techies are aiming at driverless cars being commonplace on our roads within the next ten years. It will be interesting to see who is right.

The problems experienced in the Silicone Valley may be the beginnings of the Luddite counter revolution. Perhaps the masses will rise up and smash their IPhones and tablets or, more sensibly, not buy them in the first place. Does anyone know what happens in the bible after the world has been inherited?