WTP 181

It's a couple weeks old, but I finally got around to listening to episode 181 of the Technology podcast from PRI's Clark Boyd. The podcast is usually a collection of tech stories by PRI and the BBC, and I generally find one or two of the included pieces to be especially interesting. This time I liked them all. The podcast starts with a story from China about how computers are eroding the ability of the Chinese to write in their native language. Of course, we don't have to worry about that problem in English (where's the spellcheck button on this page, anyway?). Then you learn about Estonia's aims for world dominion (in the technology sector, at least), oil freighters with very, very large sails, and blogs for indigenous populations in Bolivia.