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By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security
By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security One of the biggest debates happening at the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around the U.S. government’s fear that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect their private communications. Naturally, this isn’t something Big Brother wants […]
“Global System Catastrophe” Is Key Threat To Human Civilization
“Global System Catastrophe” Is Key Threat To Human Civilization – Oxford Scientists Cite “Global System Catastrophe” Among 12 Plausible Threats To Civilization – “Global System Catastrophe” More Of A Possibility Than Most Western People Suspect – Study Described As A “Scientific Assessment About The Possibility Of Oblivion” – Other Threats Include Nuclear War, Environmental Degradation, […]
What Progress Means
What Progress Means Last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report appears to have hit a nerve. That didn’t come as any sort of a surprise, admittedly. It’s one thing to point out that going back to the simpler and less energy-intensive technologies of earlier eras could help extract us from the corner into which industrial society has […]
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the […]
Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change
Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change With the planet facing potentially severe impacts from global warming in coming decades, a government-sponsored scientific panel on Tuesday called for more research on geoengineering — technologies to deliberately intervene in nature to counterclimate change. The panel said the research could include small-scale outdoor experiments, which […]
Electric Utilities Face A Disruptive Future
Electric Utilities Face A Disruptive Future Cheap gas and oil aren’t the only forces disrupting the U.S. electric system. Solar is already wreaking havoc, and large-scale batteries are looming. What Uber and Lyft have done to the taxi industry worldwide is just beginning to happen to the electricity industry; and it could shock consumers – […]
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma
We Must Start Digging Our Way Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the future. What else could explain the mad rush to extract and use up the Earth’s resources as quickly and wastefully as possible? […]
Privacy will not exist in 10 years, Pew survey of tech experts says
Privacy will not exist in 10 years, Pew survey of tech experts says. A Pew Research Center survey of over 2,500 technology industry professionals and experts found that over half believe there will not be a “secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure” in place in 10 years. The “Future of Privacy” survey found that […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: Seneca cliffs of the third kind: how technological progress can generate a faster collapse
RESOURCE CRISIS: Seneca cliffs of the third kind: how technological progress can generate a faster collapse. The image above (from Wikipedia) shows the collapse of the North Atlantic cod stocks. The fishery disaster of the early 1990s was the result of a combination of greed, incompetence, and government support for both. Unfortunately, it is […]
Cops of the future? British bobbies get a sci-fi makeover | UK news | The Guardian
Cops of the future? British bobbies get a sci-fi makeover | UK news | The Guardian. Home Office researchers are looking into a range of sci-fi equipment that will transform British police officers into figures closer to Robocop than Dixon of Dock Green. Innovations on the Home Office wishlist includes a robotic exoskeleton to take the load […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology. It was probably inevitable that last week’s discussion of the way that contemporary science is offering itself up as a sacrifice on the altar of corporate greed and institutional arrogance would field me a flurry of responses that insisted that I must hate science. This is […]
The Rutherford Institute :: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
The Rutherford Institute :: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?. Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” […]
US Navy deploys laser weapon to Persian Gulf for first-ever combat mission — RT News
US Navy deploys laser weapon to Persian Gulf for first-ever combat mission — RT News. The US Navy has deployed its first ever combat laser. The futuristic weapon has boosted the arsenal of the Fifth Fleet’s command vessel in the Persian Gulf. The laser is said to be effective against numerous small targets, such as […]
Typewriters, Not Touchscreens … Security the Old-Fashioned Way – The Epoch Times
Typewriters, Not Touchscreens … Security the Old-Fashioned Way – The Epoch Times. In writing, music, photography and other areas, “outdated” technologies have initially been valued for their retro, nostalgic appeal in the hipster culture. Vinyl is one of the most notable technologies to have achieved a noticeable revival, not only for its retro value but […]
