Get Over Your Industrial Complex
From the category archives:
Networked information technologies (ex. the internet, mobiles phones, GPS) enable people to organize solutions to the collective action problems that, in the past, could only be solved by government. The emergence of these technologies allow humanity to create a society that empowers communities to solve their own problems by expanding individual liberties.
The QS Platform combines [...]
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Violence and war are still pervasive in our culture which makes it easy to disregard the amazing progress human civilization has made over the last 10,000 years. Experts estimate half of all men in hunter gather societies were killed by another person. In our post-industrial society, less than 1% of individuals die at the hands [...]
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Everyone is talking about revolutions in media, science, medicine, energy, education, labor organization, philanthropy and the myriad of other fields that are effected by the introduction of transformative information distribution systems . No one, it seems, but the anarchists and new agers are talking about THE Revolution. It is here, it is peaceful and it’s [...]
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I began writing my first blog posts when I was in Italy in 2006, chilling on a train. Here are three of the finer ones tackling sex, technology and how Italians managed to institutionalize chillness.
Slut: Worst Word in the English Language
It has become cliché to complain about the double standard of sexuality concerning men and [...]
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The Colbert Report
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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David Blaine, watch your back. Despite your impressive resume of awe-inspiring street magic and death-defying physical exploits, a far better illusionist is attempting to complete his last and most astonishing trick. A vanishing act, so incredibly unbelievable, that it will forever be considered one of the greatest acts of deception ever displayed to an audience. [...]
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On Tuesday night, with the resounding selection of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, the latest test case in the trial of idealism successfully earned a place back on the American docket.
It was a moment of emotional catharsis for idealism’s often denigrated liberal clerks, whose flowing tears and unrelenting exclamations of [...]
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Tonight, everything is up for grabs.
Who loses in that type of situation? The status quo. Existing worldviews.
Who’s playing?
Insurers, universities, health care organizations, foreclosure markets, and more health care organizations.
To the media players, desperate to keep this election interesting and watchable, McCain is currently “winning”, but everyone knows he’s going to lose. Who is going to [...]
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On Sunday, it was reported (barely) by the New York Times that, allegedly, a Special Forces operation was carried out by four American choppers and on-the-ground commandos within Syria’s borders. They destroyed a terrorist haven in Kabul, a town that borders Syria and Iraq. Syria claimed that it was a “construction” zone. Intelligence indicated that [...]
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Turn Detroit Into Cape Canaveral
by Anthony Kanigliero on November 14, 2008
in Commentary, Ramblings
On Monday, General Motors spooked the entire economics community, financial and academic, when it reported that it was hemorraging $2 billion a month and might be forced to declare bankruptcy. If their cash reserves dip below $10 billion, the company said it will be unable to pay its health care obligations or even finance its [...]
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