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“Tokyo has become a victim of its own rush to go broadband. In the past six weeks, hundreds of homes and offices have reportedly been left without high-speed internet service after the crows discovered that broadband cable can be pecked into usable strips more easily than power cables or telephone copper wire ever could. Crows have discovered that the broadband cables, which are strung from telegraph poles across Tokyo, are the perfect consistency for building nests.” There are other sorts of hackers in the world! Ravens and crows are from the Corvid family and are considered very intelligent and inquisitive.

My picture – Raven walking the streets of Glebe!

Professor Susan Greenfield talks about the way cyberspace can damage the brain, its deadening effect. It creates a loss of certain cognitive stimulation with no character development, no story line, just process as an aim in itself. She talks of a good book having a beginning and a conclusion, where we follow the story creating images in our brain, and picturing the characters, from descriptive narrative, but in cyberspace these are not important. Our brains need creative stimulation to develop understanding, through making connections and realising consequence. This is not so in cyberspace.