Thursday, November 21, 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.

Carl Safina: What Animals are Thinking and Feeling, Why It Should Matter

January 20, 2011 by  
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The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse.