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08/24/08 // Link:
Brain will be battlefield of future, warns report Very creepy stuff: The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including ‘pharmacological land mines’ and drones directed by mind controlcontinue reading »
05/09/08 // Link:
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus Transcript of Clay Shirky’s recent talk at the Web 2.0 conference. Fascinating read. I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for …continue reading »
02/05/08 // Link:
The Return of the Airship I used to think it was just me, but glancing through the Slashdot thread that led me to this article shows I’m not alone — the people wants us some airships. I’m not quite sure what the appeal is exactly, …continue reading »
11/08/07 // Link:
Travelling In America, Where Everyone’s A Suspect Filed “we gotta get out of this place.” Here’s the story of what it’s like to be a foreign traveller visiting the United States. Contrasting this with my own experiences abroad is downright frightening. Nepal, for instance, may have a …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Languages Racing to Extinction This really depresses me. Especially when America is so xenophobic at the moment. I am however somewhat fascinated by the idea of a language that’s spoken by only one person, which is incredibly counter intuitive — do they talk to …continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier In its efforts to combat terrorism, fight human trafficking, and bust drug dealers, the Department of Homeland Security is compiling a large database of where you go, who you travel with, what you read and more. Should you decide you’d …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Big Brother is Watching us All There’s a line in the quintessentially paranoid film Enemy of the State where Gene Hackman’s character suggests that all the technology being used to track Will Smith’s characheter is nothing, antiquated, compared to what could be used. Judging by this …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:
Debtor Nation Great piece in the Harvard Magazine about something that’s always puzzled me… consumerism. I’ve long wondered exactly how American culture can continue to buy and buy and buy, it seems like eventually we’ll run out of stuff to buy and …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
Challenging The Web’s Endless Cacophony Andrew Keen’s new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy accuses bloggers and other evangelists for the web of destroying culture, ruining livelihoods and threatening to make consumers of new …continue reading »
04/21/07 // Link:
Predictions From The Learned, 1900 As Told To The Ladies Home Journal The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. Mr. Watkins wrote: “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from …continue reading »
09/27/06 // Link:
Boing Boing: Micro air vehicles that cooperate “MIT researchers are using tricked-out model helicopters, each about the size of a seagull, to demonstrate swarming behavior in unmanned micro-air vehicles (drones).” Yeah, we all get to live in a scifi nightmare. I can’t wait.continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:
Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags Clay Shirky, who is consistantly one the brightest and most original thinkers in the tech sector, on classification and the internet. “Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we …continue reading »