Cory Doctorow is back in The Guardian today. This column is about the sheet quantity of data collected by modern day security services. Cory’s quite right that it does them little good, though I’m not sure that his SF-based explanation as to why this is so will work for non-SF readers. Still, he does manage to plug Charlie Stross and Rudy Rucker along the way, which is a very good thing.

But tell me, what about this? The column begins:

The Singularity is a conceit of modern science fiction: a place inside vast computers where whole universes are simulated whose reality is every bit as sharp and instantaneous as the physical world we inhabit.

Um??? I guess he must have been edited.