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"Global Information Society Watch. 2018 - Community Networks" - by @APC_News: https://www.giswatch.org/community-networks https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf 43 country reports selected based on definition: “communication networks built, owned, operated and used by citizens in a participatory and open manner.”
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Today, nearly 60 percent of kids get to school by car, almost four times as many as in the late 1960s, when just 16 percent of children did so. https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/05/high-school-commute-drive-sleep-exercise-children-teens/588850/
And any amount of "electric self driving AI cars etc." won't change this inhumane absurdity. Seems people like @elonmusk have not gotten the memo yet.
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Innovation: Taking Risks or Making Risks?
https://medium.com/@foam/innovation-taking-risks-or-making-risks-3a9d13b1401aImagine a future in which startup culture has become obsolete as way of creating value. Where the ideals and infrastructure of Silicon Valley are considered old fashioned and embarrasingly silly. What alternative approaches to innovation have developed?
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Lookout ("An Angled Smartphone Camera That Instantly Streams Steps Ahead So You Can Keep Looking Down") is a PERFECT example of contemporary western technology design: https://laughingsquid.com/lookout-angled-smartphone-camera/ Tragic and Stupid, but everyone is too distracted to notice. #Mindful #Technology #Design
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Appropriate Technology for the Smart Era - talk by Paul Polak at SDF2012:
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Thinking of this quote every time i see yet another project using ultra-complex machine learning/robotics to "optimise" mindless mass consumerism - so people can "buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't like".
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Leopold Kohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr (1909 - 1994)
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E. F. Schumacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher
E.F. Schumacher on Buddhist Economics:
Small is beautiful impressions of Fritz Schumacher:
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"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon." —Bill Strickland
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Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit:
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Paul Mason: “Information technology is going to erode the need for work”:
http://lab.cccb.org/en/paul-mason-information-technology-is-going-to-erode-the-need-for-work/#Technology #Economics #Politics #Automation #OpenSource #P2P
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Microsoft will soon be shipping a Linux kernel with Windows: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
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Headlines from Google IO in a parallel dimension:
- Google Coop: 51% of corp ownership transfer to worker run cooperative.
- Google Climate: 51% of profits allocated to climate change resilience innovations.
- Google Open: Radical org shift towards open source & p2p.
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"The Urgent Need for Christian Transhumanism" - by Micah Redding
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Silicon Valley only works cause it leverages OpenSource Code (Linux etc), OpenAccess Science (Arxiv etc) & OpenPlatform Labour (Uber etc.). Yet, it then predominantly breaks the virtuous open cycle & siphons off the value generated by the commons to capitalist billionaires. Why?
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5 Types of Terrible Drivers: A Dossier from a 1955 Driver’s Ed Manual: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/5-types-of-terrible-drivers-a-dossier-from-a-1955-drivers-ed-manual/ #Technology #Augmentation #Urban
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Hacking the Cyborg - Can collective intelligence save us from self-destruction?
http://www.urbz.net/articles/hacking-cyborg
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The community network manual : how to build the Internet yourself - by https://netcommons.eu/: https://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/10438/25696
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Robert Jungk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jungk
Future workshop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_workshop
