A response to a column the previous March entitled "Do Computers make Us Fools?"

A reaction to Deep Blue's defeat of Garry Kasparov at chess

Promotes interpreters and proposes simplification to interpreted programming languages and their environment

A reaction to the Department of Justice's action; suggests it would be better to whiteant rather than to bulldoze Microsoft: by implementing in standard hardware the underlying windowing capability that contributes so much to Window's complexity the way would be opened for competing systems to be offered

An argument for a new approach to text encoding, depicting ASCII/EBCDIC as pathetic and Unicode as gross overkill, and proposing that a system of compatible and cooperative standards be developed based on writing systems

Suggests that the computer is used to prevent basic change and to ensure the prolongation and polarisation of our feudal society

Reviews the role of the computer in education, finding that completely delusory, irrelevant, and impractical expectations are held for it; recommends actions by the computing profession, and by computing professionals, to see digital technology properly used in education

Asserts that intellectual property laws should be examined for the social benefits they are supposed to bring; questions the appropriateness of patent and copyright protection for software; and suggests that industrial design and trademark protection should be used instead

Glynn Moody, Second Sight, The Guardian, 2005 March 10 (over the past year, factions for and against patenting of programs have fought a battle for the soul of European software, and ramifications of a recent EU decision on the subject are likely to be huge)

EU ministers endorse patent law, BBC, 2005 March 7 (European ministers endorse a proposed law on software patents which has proved very controversial)