http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7 and
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/
Finally somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red Herring
Utopian hype around IoT and its purported deep and beneficent innocence.
Back in the 90s, there was the same level of hype around the Web in
Pretty thorough story on ageism in tech, which usually gets no more than a bit
of lip service here and there:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism
A cynic might say this is the thin edge of the wedge (actually not all that
thin, given the visibility and size
Was recently reading Matteo Pasquinelli's impressive 2014 article on society of
meta-data -and how italian (post)workerists have identified the trend and
grasped where it was leading;
http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/02/0263276413514117
At the end Matteo links the argument to the
ACLU is not what it once was. The national office is now almost
exclusively mercenary, corporatized as a fund-raising foundation,
high-salaried leaders deployed to hustle concentrated wealth
holders. Genuine public interest board members departed
some time ago. The branches remain reputable but
Just doing a survey on a startup idea:
Would you use a free condom with BT IPV6 address ?
Totally free.
On 3/25/14 19:58 , John Hopkins wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7 and
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/
Finally somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red
Herring
In the Facebook Aquarium Part One, section #9, 2 (end)
(...)
Paradoxically, the webization of the social by way of mass profiling
results in anti-social outcomes, since we all can become guilty by
association - and innocent by dissociation. And as human decision makers
are increasingly
(with links)
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/the-multistakeholder-model-neo-libe
ralism-and-global-internet-governance/
http://t.co/EU8F1LgUn6
The Multistakeholder Model, Neo-liberalism and Global (Internet) Governance
Michael Gurstein
I've commented elsewhere on the sudden
