Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Can we stop the Cybernetic Revolution?

Can we stop the Cybernetic Revolution?
Introduction Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality, musician, and currently the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, worries about the future of human culture more than the gadgets. In his “Half a Manifesto” he...
April 12th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Mecca Diaries

Mecca Diaries
Hajj is the world’s largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it is…shaky camerawork and all. The next...
March 23rd, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More

THE MACHINE STOPS

THE MACHINE STOPS
Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it’s as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages...
March 22nd, 2010 | Arts | Read More

The Future of War

The Future of War
Cyber-war – the way of the future? Governments are increasingly preparing themselves for an internet-based attack on their essential service infrastructure, say security experts Jonathan Richards from the Times Online The prospect of inter-governmental cyber-war was something for which...
March 18th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution
This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...
February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Could you be a Bin Laden Model too?

Could you be a Bin Laden Model too?
Spanish politician to sue FBI over using his face for a hypothetical modern Bin Laden photo The FBI acknowledges having used Gaspar Llamazares as the model in a Bin Laden photo-fit. // The FBI acknowledges having used Gaspar Llamazares as the model in a Bin Laden photo-fit. ';images[1]=' FBI's...
January 22nd, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks

Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks
Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service. The internet giant said the decision followed a cyber attack it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights...
January 18th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The dark side of the internet

The dark side of the internet
In the ‘deep web’, Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science....
January 14th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The Predator War – What are the risks of using Drones?

The Predator War – What are the risks of using Drones?
What are the risks of the C.I.A.’s covert drone program? On August 5th, officials at the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Virginia, watched a live video feed relaying closeup footage of one of the most wanted terrorists in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in...
December 22nd, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More

Second Lives – What attracts so many to live Virtual Lives?

Second Lives – What attracts so many to live Virtual Lives?
You can live there, have a job, get married, get paid, go shopping… In fact the only difference between Second Life and your nine-to-five existence is that it all goes on in a virtual world, run on computers and accessed via the internet.For a staggering 26 million people virtual worlds are...
December 17th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More
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