Thursday, November 14, 2024

Aram Sinnreich: The Next Generation Internet

May 17, 2011 by  
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Aram Sinnreich envisions a new internet that uses mesh networking to produce a stable, ad hoc, global wireless network in which each user is a router, server and client combined, and in which no single state or organisation can effectively censor or surveil the population on a broad scale.

Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion

March 3, 2011 by  
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The term ‘compassion’ typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy has fallen out of touch with reality. Journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word.