http://farmhack.org/tools - "A worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools. Share hacks online and at meet ups because we become better farmers when we work together."
http://farmhack.org/tools - "A worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools. Share hacks online and at meet ups because we become better farmers when we work together."
Atmospheric Alienation, Carbon Tracking and Geo-Techno Agency - by Anita Girvan:
http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/atmospheric-alienation-carbon-tracking-and-geo-techno-agency/ #Politics #Regenerative #Technology #Science #Military
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” - Marshall McLuhan
Borg Complex: A Primer - by L. M. SACASAS (2013):
https://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-primer/
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders - by Nicholas Carr:
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8557 #Technology #Augmentation #Culture #Media
In his books Empire and Communication (1950) and The Bias of Communication (1951), the Canadian historian Harold Innis argued that all communication systems incorporate biases, which shape how people communicate and hence how they think. These biases can, in the long run, exert a profound influence over the organization of society and the course of history.
Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony. As a society, we’ve largely embraced this sunny view. Harold Innis had a very different take. “Improvements in communication,” he wrote in The Bias of Communication, “make for increased difficulties of understanding.” He continued: “The large-scale mechanization of knowledge is characterized by imperfect competition and the active creation of monopolies in language which prevent understanding and hasten appeals to force.” Looking over recent events, I sense that Innis may turn out to be the more reliable prophet.
"Google filters out serendipity in favor of insularity. It douses the infectious messiness of a city with an algorithmic antiseptic." https://longreads.com/2014/09/30/your-inner-drone-the-politics-of-the-automated-future/ #Augmentation #Technology
The World Is Not the Screen - talk by Nicholas Carr:
The State of Globalization in 2019, and What It Means for Strategists: https://hbr.org/2019/02/the-state-of-globalization-in-2019-and-what-it-means-for-strategists
Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World - by Herbert Simon (1969) (PDF)
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." - Herbert Simon
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." ―Herbert Simon
European Universities Dismal at Reporting Results of Clinical Trials:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01389-y "Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules"
FCC Commissioner Demands Answers From Telcos on Phone Location Data: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wmzg/fcc-commissioner-demands-answers-from-atandt-t-mobile-sprint-verizon-on-phone-location-data
Google To Roll Out Auto-Delete Controls For Location History and Activity Data: https://betanews.com/2019/05/01/google-auto-delete-controls/
NSA Says Warrantless Searches of Americans' Data Rose in 2018:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/nsa-surveillance-spike/
#Technology # InfoSec #SE
"World War 3 is a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian populations." - Marshall McLuhan in 1970. 50 years ago, yeah?
An increasing body of evidence suggests that the time we spend on our smartphones is interfering with our:
- sleep
- self-esteem
- relationships
- memory
- attention spans
- creativity
- productivity
- problem-solving and decision-making skills
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/well/mind/putting-down-your-phone-may-help-you-live-longer.html #Health #Technology
https://www.aweigh.io/ - A navigation technology that does not rely on satellites. #Technology
Surveillance & the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma - talk by Oscar Gandy Jr:
There should be a law (or incentive system) for all engineers to have to work in human-care (midwife, nurse, elderly-care, kindergartener etc.) for a minimum of 1 year during their education/career. Convinced it would have a tremendous positive impact on the discipline & society.
The Betrayal by Technology - A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
Why digitalculture is not structurally different from petroculture. The capitalocene new boss, same as the old boss: https://grist.org/article/report-going-100-renewable-power-means-a-lot-of-dirty-mining/ - #Regenerative #Technology #ClimateChange
Barring major changes in consumption habits, a world powered by renewable energy is a world of dramatically intensified mining - cobalt, copper, lithium, rare earths - and, as a result, ecosystem destruction & human rights violations.