January 2011
“At this point, we don’t have the option of not being technological creatures.”
– The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More — Vulture
“There have been a growing number of reports of looters/thugs conducting smash...”
– EGYPT: Looting as Counter-Insurgency - Global Guerrillas
— what happens when we’re all connected? False Flag attacks fail, that’s what.
“..as we have seen in Egypt, the ability of the open source insurgency to...”
– NEGATION IN EGYPT - Global Guerrillas
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“the very factors that have brought Facebook and similar sites such commercial...”
– Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change - NYTimes.com
— hence the return of internet in all things cypherpunk
“So who are the players in Egypt’s drama? Sayyid Qutb, decades dead, is one: an...”
– The Thing About Revolution | Nick Harkaway
hitRECordJoe: The Social Network & My Generation... →
hitrecordjoe:
The Social Network & My Generation an open letter to my friend Peter Travers Peter, Hey man! So, I finally watched The Social Network the other night, and today I read your review of it, curious about your claim that this film defines my generation. First let me say, I agree that…
“Up till now we thought of cultural developments leading to the opportunity of...”
– 100,000-year-old human settlement in U.A.E. overturns what we know of our evolution
German engineers create the most robust robotic... →
We’re seriously entering into “chop my weak flesh off and give me that” territory here.
From IEEE Spectrum:
German researchers have built an anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure…
“..tonight, I am watching a country in the throes of a populist uprising turn off...”
– Is Internet Access a Human Right?
WatchShoe RFID - behind the scenes (by Hampus Lemhag)
“Research In Motion unveiled a concept design for a phone called the BlackBerry...”
– Elgan: When the iPhone feels your pain - Computerworld
two words RIM: fuck.no
Organic semiconductor materials look key to... →
From New Scientist:
Light-sensitive plastic might be key to repairing damaged retinas. Creating neuro-prosthetic devices such as retinal implants is tricky because biological tissue doesn’t…
“After all, the radical transparency of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook may not be...”
– Julian Dibbell » Radical Opacity (via ayjay)
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“..augmented humanity implies inserting tech deliberately in the way of normal...”
– The Future According to Schmidt: “Augmented Humanity,” Integrated Into Google | Fast Company
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“Humanity has the power to fill outer space with life. Today our solar system is...”
– Space Settlement
— links galore here
“Red Dawn 2, the forthcoming sequel to the nineteen eighties B-movie about a...”
– Guernica / Detroitism
WatchDocumenting The Decay - Trailer (by Documenting the Decay)
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Technology Loop →
It’s funny, ’cause it’s true:
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WatchDaniel van der Velden - Metahaven | Symposium I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I Want To Be There (by Graphic Design Museum)
“To date the model has successfully predicted civil unrest in Peru, Ireland,...”
– Predicting political hotspots: Professors’ global model forecasts civil unrest against governments
“TAKRIZ asks its members, friends, followers and readers to stop relying on...”
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Facebook Suspended All TAKRIZ Accounts With Admin
Privileges on the Page TAKRIZO
http://takriz.com/press/24-1-2011-english.txt
“In contrast to the medical, electrochemical, and pharmaceutical enhancements...”
– Cyborgs R Us? – GEARFUSE
“The case against WikiLeaks is absolutely this decade’s version of the...”
– Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“** Underlying Causes **
This 21st century digital revolution is not driven by...”
– Tunisia: A Digitally-Driven, Leaderless Revolution
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“There’s a special irony when Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests—as he did in a...”
– Why the Internet Is a Great Tool for Totalitarians | Magazine
“Make no mistake: what is at stake here is the infrastructure for our national...”
– - FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
“Cable-ization of the open Internet”: Comcast/NBCU deal approved