February 2012
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“Brain complements, integrates, puts pieces together. Creates something more than...”
Anarchic Swarms
ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #26: Anarchic Swarms – The Emerging Model
Hey you wild cats, dreamers, redeemers, horizontals,
The stage is set for a climactic showdown in Chicago.
The crisis of capitalism is deepening. Youth unemployment has reached 50% in Spain and Greece… 30% in Portugal and Italy… 22% in the UK… almost 20% in the US. Hundreds of millions of people around the world are waking...
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“If you see with your mind you’ll be lonely and / or confused at the end....”
“A civil court in Spain handed down last Thursday a ruling dismissing plaintiff’s...”
– Google Spain wins lawsuit over the “right to be forgotten” « ISP Liability (via new-aesthetic)
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People don't change
And that is true since ancient times. More exactly humanity changed slowly from involution to evolution — from looking inside to focusing just to outside.
All these with the help of technology which shaped the world faster than its population, today becoming the strongest evolutionary force we know.
The top of technology is the internet. With a disrupting force normalizing all incumbent...
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“People must be controlled by fear”
– Mika Waltari
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“Gods are to make people relaxed”
– Mika Waltari
“A small company called ChamTech Operations based in Utah has developed a...”
– Spray-on Nanoparticle Mix Turns Trees Into Antennas - IEEE Spectrum (via new-aesthetic)
“An extended campaign in Nevada by Google has led to a new host of provisions...”
– Starting March 1st, A Red License Plate in Nevada Means the Driver is a Robot! | Singularity Hub (via new-aesthetic)
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“Stealing is the right of the slave”
– Mika Waltari
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“The entire orchestration of the symphony of mind unfolds like changes in a music...”
– The Symphony of Self (via wiredvanity)
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“2012 is about robots. Not the hardware but the software robots writing, trading...”
“Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book,...”
– How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy, via @topfife. (via new-aesthetic)
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Youth?
Multitasking very close to schizophrenia. And less is more.
Technology progress is superexponential →
“The worst thing on Earth: girls on drama”
“Forbes has joined a group of 30 clients using Narrative Science software to...”
– Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writers - GalleyCat (via new-aesthetic)
“Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people...”
– The Internet is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality | Mother Jones
“cognitive inequality”
(via new-aesthetic)
“Could these be the toys that teach your children multiple languages, that help...”
– Ex-Pixar Geeks Building Siri-Style Line of Toys, via tda (via new-aesthetic)
“About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked...”
– Charles Duhigg for the New York Times: How Companies Learn Your Secrets.
blech:
Algorithms that know your daughter is pregnant before you do, based on purchases of lotion, large purses, and vitamin pills. (This is the future. Maybe we got the one we deserved.)
“Digital analysts predict this will be the first election cycle in which Facebook...”
– Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election | World news | guardian.co.uk (via new-aesthetic)
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Rare and Beautiful
Today in the startup world there are three main religions.
One simple and straightforward called bootstrapping and driven by 37Signals. Another called the incubator model, driven by Y Combinator. And another, practiced by Union Square Ventures, which is direct investment in the best startups.
37Signals are cruel like nature: do it on your own, if you are fit you’ll win. Nothing else...
Steve Jobs
Remember when America was musing about what if Steve was the President?
Many people started to wonder seriously.
And now the FBI files. Yes a response, an anti-Jobs PR campaign from the government.
Too late and too weak. That’s why Steve should be the President. He could come up with something which sells immediately.
“WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept...”
– Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.com, via Toby B. (via new-aesthetic)