This post got deleted by the mods in the SciFi community. Hard to tell exactly why. Anyway, it's quite a tasty little short story from one of my favourite authors.
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One side effect of the nowt protocols is suppression of Saccadic Masking in the visual processing functions of the brain. This makes them more aware than the rest of us of the 50/60 HZ flicker of LED and energy saving fluorescent light bulbs. In extreme cases the simple act of walking through a new housing development at night can produce petit mal epilepsis unless the nowt is careful to avoid sliding their gaze across the typical fake tudorbethan door lights.
eg This lovely bit of near future SciFi from Bruce Sterling. There are computer nerds in Ukraine too. Not just Europhile separatists and Russian apparatchiks. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-brain-dump
Found via http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/478/Bruce-Sterling-Cory-Doctorow-Jon-page06.html#post144
"I don't write big, tub-thumping novels with the eagerness I used to, but I'm writing rather a lot of short science fiction lately. I'm not sure what this stuff is supposed to demonstrate to anybody (it doesn't really "advance the cause," or anything) but it's all exceptionally topical and rather politically pointed. I've done so many pieces of this ilk now that it's starting to look like some kind of web-fiction mini-genre."