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Science in shackles | John Sulston | Comment is free | The Guardian

  • The fruits of science and innovation have nourished our society and economy for years, but nations unable to navigate our regulatory system are often excluded, as are vulnerable individuals. We need to consider how to balance the needs of science as an industry with the plight of those who desperately need the products of science.

26 Nov 09

What’s technology innovation got to do with it?

  • there was a sense that technology innovation simply happens and that, as needs arise, solutions will naturally emerge.
12 Nov 09

Antifascist Calling...: Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System



  • According to Wikileaks, INDECT's "Work package 4" is designed "to comb web blogs, chat sites, news reports, and social-networking sites in order to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships." Ponder that phrase again: "automatic dossiers."
  • Last year, The New York Times described "a web of secret bank accounts and shadowy consultants," and a culture of "entrenched corruption ... at a sprawling, sophisticated corporation that externally embraced the nostrums of a transparent global marketplace built on legitimate transactions."
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09 Nov 09

David Chalmers and the Singularity that will probably not come | Psychology Today

  • extrapolation is a really bad way of making predictions, unless one can be reasonably assured of understanding the underlying causal phenomena (which we don’t, in the case of intelligence).

  • After the deployment of the above mentioned highly questionable “argument,” things just got bizarre in Chalmers’ talk. He rapidly proceeded to tell us that A++ will happen by simulated evolution in a virtual environment — thereby making a blurred and confused mix out of different notions such as natural selection, artificial selection, physical evolution and virtual evolution.
04 Nov 09

Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy

  • now there is a certain amount of drift
    and uncertainty that is not welcome in Washington," said Green.
17 Oct 09

Google's Velvet Rope - Page 1 - The Daily Beast

  • It is Social Marketing 101: Find a way to get people to spread word of your new product or service, so that you don't have to advertise it yourself. Only in this case, the sinister beauty behind the strategy is to give those crowd-sourced armies of word-of-mouth advertisers something for their trouble—the ability to decide who else gets into the club.
12 Oct 09

100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica

  • Most of it turned out to be absurd hyperbole, but it's interesting to see just how consistent the words and the fears remain across more than a century of innovation and a host of very different devices.
  • the rhetoric increased both in volume and apocalyptic fervor, even as copyright law granted ever more rights to creators.
04 Oct 09

Mindjack Magazine: Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff

  • my contacts at the
    company claim the much-shrouded division's true purpose is to determine the
    decision points in online behavior and how to manipulate them effectively.


  • Today, we don't even have to venture onto a computer to be drawn into
    closed systems of electronic coercion. A best-selling book called The One to
    One Future instructs marketers how to customize direct marketing in order to
    create the same kinds of consumption loops.

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Accelerating Future » Response to Jamais Cascio on “The Singularity and Society”

  • When we intrude into the memetic territory of adjacent competing movements, the natural response is to tear us down at any cost.
  • The only reason that the cause of fighting global warming has achieved such prominence is because it synchs very well with the entire Gaianistic memetic supercomplex, which is a confusing mix of rational and irrational causes and tendencies.
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