Water scarcity and interstate conflict - Neo-Malthusianism vs. resource optimism – a social capital approach: http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/Publications/Water_e-Journal/03_Kosovac_Water_Security.aspx #Regenerative #Politics
Water scarcity and interstate conflict - Neo-Malthusianism vs. resource optimism – a social capital approach: http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/Publications/Water_e-Journal/03_Kosovac_Water_Security.aspx #Regenerative #Politics
Demography not Democracy is the Future - Lee Kuan Yew
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - by Elinor Ostrom (1990) (PDF, alt-PDF, Buy). Related: Summary of "Governing the Commons" - by T.A. O'Lonergan,
The key objective of tech-giants in the next 10 years is to "disrupt" critical urban infrastructure globally. For fully privatised post-national "public" service providers (Google, Amazon & co), dominating Water, Electricity, Food, Transportation, Logistic, Health, Money, Housing, etc. systems is the missing piece for end-2-end society management. In this context, "AI for Climate Change" is simply a useful Trojan PR horse.
Microsoft wants to unleash its AI expertise on climate change: https://www.fastcompany.com/90334623/microsoft-wants-to-unleash-its-ai-expertise-on-climate-change
What’s critical about critical infrastructure?:
https://theconversation.com/whats-critical-about-critical-infrastructure-73849
Vectorialist Class: "Those who own & control the vectors of information/data":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/05/the-sublime-language-of-my-century/ #Ideas #Technology #Politics
The most terrifying conspiracy theory of all, is that there is no conspiracy at all.
A world governed by pure chance (and maybe some greed & stupidity)
"We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?"
- Robert Anton Wilson
Facebook accidentally shipped "tens of thousands" of VR controllers with hidden messages like "Big Brother is Watching" and "The Masons Were Here":
https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4
Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner
"China Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining in Renewed Clampdown": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/china-plans-to-ban-cryptocurrency-mining-in-renewed-clampdown #Crypto #Politics
"National Development Reform Commission listed crypto-mining among a plethora of industries it intends to eliminate because they “seriously wasted resources” or polluted the environment".
Theory: All systems are non-reformable, once their time has passed: Feudalism, Slavery, Colonialism - non abolished via reforms, but via collapse. Our current system - dominated by transnational techno-capital - will be no exception. The end is nigh! Rejoice! Seeds are germinating.
Konzept des Tages: Die Planetarische Zivilgesellschaft (planetary civil society)
"Meeting with Jean Ziegler": Great discussion (1h 20min) with the Swiss sociologists & globalisation critic. A hero of mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ziegler (DE only)
Theory: The spreadsheet (Excel etc.) has cause more damage to society than the atomic bomb: It enabled accountants, lawyers, economists & bankers to radically expand their power and scale their cold totalitarian logic to all aspects of human life & ecology.
While western "users" (replacement for legacy terms such as 'citizen' or 'human') are permanently hypnotised by vain technological conveniences which enable them to suffocate their existence in consumerism - consumerism is suffocating our planets eco-systems.
"Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy": https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828
The rise of Amazon (the company) is inextricably linked with the fall of Amazon (the rainforest).
"To quibble with this kind of system [capitalism] about its values, to frighten it with visions about the consequences of growth, is to quarrel with its very metabolism" - Murray Bookchin, (Toward an Ecological Society, 1980)
"You can’t maintain rigid digital borders and assert cyberpower influence at the same time, so nations have to “cooperate to compete”. The result is a global ecosystem perpetually close to the threshold of war":
http://theconversation.com/the-internet-is-now-an-arena-for-conflict-and-were-all-caught-up-in-it-101736 #Politics #Technology