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The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone’s Encrypted Data
The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone’s Encrypted Data Encryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it. Like it or not, you are your data. In this day and age, your receipts, social media activity, public records, GPS data, and internet search history are […]
Estonia Expands Massive DNA Grab Of 100,000 Citizens
Estonia Expands Massive DNA Grab Of 100,000 Citizens Alarm bells are ringing in Northern Europe, over the Estonian government’s latest attempt to take a massive number of genetic samples from its citizens. Science, technology, and a government have usually been the perfect trifecta in every dystopian sci-fi thriller, as elected/unelected officials tend to gravitate towards all-seeing, all-knowing and […]
Direct Democracy – Is it Possible?
Direct Democracy – Is it Possible? The advancement in technology today certainly allows us to scrap the Republican form of government with pretend representation of the people by career politicians. There is no reason we cannot vote from home on every bill and that no bill may be merged with any other subject matter. There […]
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe? Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by […]
History crash
History crash My previous post offered a retrospective take on my ‘Peasant’s Republic of Wessex’ post cycle that I completed a while back. I thought I might now turn to another such retrospective, this time on my recently-completed ‘History of the world’ cycle. So I’d like to offer a few thoughts on the way we […]
Devil’s Bargain
Devil’s Bargain We already have planet-cooling technology. The problem is, it’s killing us. A trope of sci-fi movies these days, from Snowpiercer to Geostorm, is that our failure to tackle climate change will eventually force us to deploy an arsenal of unproven technologies to save the planet. Think sun-deflecting space mirrors or chemically altered clouds. […]
Technology and Its Discontents
Technology and Its Discontents Tucked within the pages of the January issue of the Agriview, a monthly farm publication published by the State of Vermont, was a short survey from the Department of Public Service (DPS). Described as an aid to the Department in drafting their “Ten Year Telecom Plan”, the survey contains eight questions, the […]
‘Cosmo-Localization’: Can Thinking Globally and Producing Locally Really Save Our Planet?
‘COSMO-LOCALIZATION’: CAN THINKING GLOBALLY AND PRODUCING LOCALLY REALLY SAVE OUR PLANET? Fablabs, makerspaces, emerging global knowledge commons… These are but some of the outcomes of a growing movement that champions globally-sourced designs for local economic activity. Its core idea is simple: local ownership of the means to produce basic manufactures and services can change our […]
Four Pillars for a Better Future: Knowledge, Consciousness, Innovation, Local Action – Part 3
Four Pillars for a Better Future: Knowledge, Consciousness, Innovation, Local Action – Part 3 There’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you’ve got… because the owners of this country don’t want that. […]
Wisdom, Experience and Just-In-Time Thinking
Wisdom, Experience and Just-In-Time Thinking I try to remind myself each generation considers itself smarter than the previous iteration. If you follow the bouncing logic ball, this means the next (younger) generation believes itself smarter than its present day cohort. In essence the millennial generation of today feels superior to those older than them while […]
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism During Nate Hagens’ #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but more stochastic energy types. Ed. note: The […]
The Prepper’s Guide to Cybersecurity
The Prepper’s Guide to Cybersecurity How savvy are you about cybersecurity? Technology is ever-changing, and that alone can make it overwhelming. If you have put off learning how to protect your computer, however, I urge you change that ASAP. Preppers get a lot of information and products from the internet, so you’ll want to make […]
The energy of Bitcoin, the information economy and the (possible) decentralization of the world
The energy of Bitcoin, the information economy and the (possible) decentralization of the world The near vertical rise and fall in price of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in recent months has been accompanied by reporting about the energy used to run the Bitcoin network. The amount is enormous, more than enough to supply the entire country […]
Will Technology Kill Us?
WILL TECHNOLOGY KILL US? The Digital Revolution along with nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence are examples of technology that can result in human extermination. The reports below from the London Telegraph illustrate how technology has become the Black Plague of today. Note: The solar storm of of 1859 named the “Carrington Event” only affected the […]
Life Without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Life Without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? Living in the United States, I’m tempted to focus on the delusion that the United States is the greatest nation in the history of the world — a claim repeated robotically by politicians of both parties. […]
