Maybe now we will prepare for that Sun pulse that will take out all of the electrical grid if we are not prepared and paying attention. Egypt is mere social storm. The real world is much more potent and could turn us back to a terminal provinciality because we were so adolescently narcissistic. I realize that science is not profitable and therefore has no value, like art. To easy to say you might think too easy to do.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:04 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: [ PFIR ] AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark" -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ PFIR ] AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark" AP: "The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark" http://bit.ly/gCJFHt (AP / MSN) "The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called 'almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history.'" --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
