The Great Acceleration Event (GAE)

2016-09-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
It's depressing to hear, over and over again, "we need to" calls, as if the key is in some magical proposition, a thought, a formula, a method, which is just around the corner, just another conference or another book away. For a hammer everything is a nail, and for a tenured thinker everything

INDIA: Publishers vs. Delhi University students... and David wins!

2016-09-16 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक न
Good news! This case pertains to some ludicrous copyright violation allegations made by major publishers, involving Indian university students (and cheap photocopying outlets) reproducing their work for educational purposes. See the comments on the judgement below. I believe

INDIA: Adhar... India's much-debated biometric and demographic data

2016-09-16 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक न
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a central government agency of India.^ Its objective is to collect the biometric and demographic data of residents, store them in a centralised database, and issue a 12-digit unique identity number called Aadhaar to each

Stiegler: Accelerating innovation bypasses all that contributes, to

2016-09-16 Thread Felix Stalder
[I came across this article by Bernhard Stiegler, which peaked my interest in the context of the discussion of accelerationism. But as I was reading along, what struck me even more is how good the standard automatic translation has become Felix] Bernard Stiegler: "Accelerating innovation