BUDAPEST-Hungary on Tuesday saw the largest public protest since 2014
as demonstrators rallied against what they see as the populist
government's tightening grip on education.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in a rainy Hungarian capital
against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's
On 15/Mar/16 09:07, Felix Stalder wrote:
The fact that nobody knows how to put all of these things together
into a coherent whole, a new techno-economic paradigm, means that
these technologies and their associated potential are still open
to interpretation and configurations based on particular
The question is, does it matter at all?
The degree of mind-engagement is irrelevant if not properly coupled with
feet-engagement.
In other words, whatever you do with your fingers touching plastic
surfaces and your eyes scanning electronic screens, your brain
constructing fantastic models
Swarms of little fish being eaten by larger, then those by larger, is
happening in many industries as well as among countries. It is hard
indeed to find anyone from the swarm who know how contest the largers
so they take buyouts, managerial positions, deanships, public
intellectualism and
On 2016-03-15 07:42, Brian Holmes wrote:
> In the US, the classic sequence of a long downswing is unfolding:
> inventions pile up while the economy stagnates, so the inventions
> are not brought to market. They pile up: electric cars, vastly more
> efficient batteries, driverless cars, digital
President Trump… Its gonna happen
A bit of a meme has sprung up recently having some ineffectual fun with the
uncanny resemblance of Trump to Biff Tannen the bully from the 80’s hit movie,
Back to the Future, its more than the physical resemblance, in the second movie
of the series Biff is
On 03/13/2016 12:39 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
"here's to that future" indeed, Brian, but I wonder how deeper we must
sink before things get better.
To answer your questions, Patrice, for sure, both North America and the
EU are sunk in governmental gridlock, and that is the essence of the
