(2004-03-15) Brin Journalism2020

David Brin on Journalism in 2020. With enough savvy eyes at work, Consensus Reality must come closer to Reality itself. Or so went the latest truism. Tor distrusted all truisms... The two men shook. Their specs recorded. So did several onlookers' including Tor's. No contract needed. As in villages (Market-s) of old, your reputation mattered more than any legal document (Reputation Management). And now the "village" was worldwide... Tor - despite the perceptiveness of all her surrogate guardians - never realized that she was being followed all that time. Indeed, there was no reason that she should. For it was a ghost that made its way after her through the familiar paths of a global village, amid the happy flow of neighborly love.