"The real reasons why China bans foreign tech companies":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swuir_7YIPs
"The real reasons why China bans foreign tech companies":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swuir_7YIPs
"First fully automated DNA data storage": http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/03/21/first-fully-automated-dna-data-storage/
Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back:
"A mythical form of space propulsion finally gets a real test": https://www.wired.com/story/a-mythical-form-of-space-propulsion-finally-gets-a-real-test/
"The Controversy of NASA’s EmDrive Positive results that violate our laws of physics": https://medium.com/futuresin/the-controversy-of-nasas-emdrive-3311f138affa
Viktor Schauberger ~ levitation electrogravitational tachometric propulsion implosion
Simple Invention Could Alleviate the Global Water Crisis: https://mymodernmet.com/hippo-water-roller/ https://www.hipporoller.org/ https://vimeo.com/72713044
BIY™ - Believe it Yourself is a series of real-fictional belief-based computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and superstitions:
http://automato.farm/portfolio/believe_it_yourself/
Illustration from Joseph Needham's 'The roles of Europe and China in the evolution of oecumenical science' (1966) #Politics #Culture #Technology
Inside Huawei’s secretive plans to develop an operating system to rival Google’s Android:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3013813/inside-huaweis-secretive-plans-develop-operating-system-rival-googles #OS #Technology #Politics
Key info: the OS will not be based on Linux but a microkernel; the OS hasn’t been largely tested for a commercial release; it is highly secretive even inside Huawei
U.S. networks are largely Huawei-free, and so the industry report also concluded that a prohibition on Chinese network kit would disadvantage Europe: "The need to replace network equipment and the capacity constraints on the remaining mobile equipment vendors would disrupt current rollout plans. Such a delay would widen the gap in 5G penetration between the EU and the U.S. by more than 15 percentage points by 2025."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/10/huawei-europe-faces-60-billion-hit-just-as-u-s-hints-its-all-about-trade-talks/ #Technology #Military
The Trauma of Technology - talk by Thomas Hübl
The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/how-politicians-and-scholars-turned-against-big-tech/591052/ #Technology #Politics
"Second, the mythology of tech as the carrier of progress has imploded, just as it did for the robber barons of the late 19th century, ushering in the trust-busting era. "
"At a broad ideological level, two things have happened. First, the idea of cyberspace, a transnational, individualistic, largely unregulated, and free place that was not exactly located in any governmental domain, has completely collapsed."
"Surveillance capitalism: critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project. Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy & data harvesting": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns << Big Tech's push to privatise & dominate the basic infrastructure of life is a shit show & insane. #Urban #Technology #Politics
"Global demand for cars will decline 3% in 2019". << This is truly excellent news! 20% decline in 2020? https://www.businessinsider.com/peak-car-38000-layoffs-job-losses-sales-at-auto-makers-2019-5 #Technology #Regenerative
In technology design a primary challenge now is how to shift from the dominate model of automation & augmentation (more! better! faster! growth! etc. - focused on artefacts) to cultivation (permanence, wisdom, appropriate tech, open source, commons, etc. - focused on life)
The urge to kill & dominate is quintessentially the same mindset that drives contemporary technological development: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a weapon".
"Tech Giants Amass a Lobbying Army for an Epic Washington Battle": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/amazon-apple-facebook-google-lobbying.html #Technology #Politics
"The canton of Geneva in Switzerland has banned the construction of 5G antennas for the time being. Parliament lacks scientific evidence on health risks.": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schweiz-Vorlaeufiges-Verbot-von-5G-Mobilfunkantennen-in-Genf-4398114.html #Technology #Health
"Tech Companies Are Profiting Off ICE Deportations, Report Shows": http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/10/23/tech-companies-surveillance-ice-immigrants
"Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells": https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/
US tech industry doing what it does best: Empowering fascistic military dictatorships. #Military #Technology #Politics
"Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes":
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/ #ML #Technology #ClimateChange