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Earth’s Perpetual Ocean Machine
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/LQIFPpBC55I/738
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Reinventing Fire: Transportation
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/9wNKCoNmAMY/599
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The City as a Scalable Network
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/0hb1hlvUFRE/597
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Future Shock: A Primer from the Modern Father of Futuretechture
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/TD0530VWe2g/588
Totally embarrassed by the depiction of exhuberant gleaming youth in this clip, with whom I clearly identified too strongly at far too impressionable an age, some 40 years ago. Wonder how I got "this way?" By believing what Toffler explained and yet still being subjected to the very vestigial technium / techonomy that he describes, herein, a lifetime ago. It was like, "Here's everything that's most broken about the world, go do something to try and help fix it." Consider this as Exhibit A for the argument that The Singularity Already Happened and Is In The Process of Happening; marking the year 2029 more like the time at which a critical mass of 8 billion humans will look back, defining that new default reality.
Toffler: "All of us think about the future, but the futurist devotes more time to thinking about the long term future, not just what’s going to happen next." "We go around the world talking to people who are, in fact, MAKING the future. So this is not some mystical exercise in Nostradamus style prediction, but an attempt to find out who are the people that are changing, or will be changing our lives in the years and decades ahead." "It occured to us that when you go to a foriegn culture, you’re bombarded by strange cues, by visual, sound and other inputs that may be different from the ones in your own culture and that are hard to understand and some people get truly disoriented, and upset, and sociologist and anthropologists call it culture shock." "What happens, if a new environment comes to you, where you are, and comes to you rapidly? So that you don’t understand IT’S inputs, and it’s CUES? And the answer to use was, if you can have culture shock by relocating to another location in space; you could have Future Shock by, in effect, relocating in time. A future comes toward you, that you don’t understand." "You also hear people than ever complaining about being time harrassed, time squeezed, time over-worked, too many hours, and I think everybody feels this pressure. You’re under pressure usually to make more and more decisions in shorter and shorter intervals of time." "And guess what? There’s a limit beyond which we don’t make good decisions. If we push ourselves to decide quickly about things that are terribly complex, the chance are, we’ll make some serious mistakes; and we do. The hope was, computers will solve this problem." "The computer does simplify decision making, but it complexifies everything else, so you have to make more complex decisions, anyway. The computer as a source of complexity, as well as a machine for dealing with complexity has not yet been fully understood." "Technology and Social Change are all interrelated. The industrial revolution changed, not just the technologies of production, it meant that people stopped being peasants, they became urban industrial people. Totally different value systems, totally different forms of social organization, new institutions. They invented department stores. They invented post offices. Social inventions, not just technological inventions." Ed. Note: don’t miss "the miracle of HIGH SPEED wire communication is commonplace today, lift a telephone receiver and the world is at your fingertips." at 5:48. LOL! "It’s the civilization that gave rise to the world that most of us watching this were born into. The world of mass production, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass entertainment, mass recreation, and in some countries, Weapons of Mass Destruction." (Hipster Hints: he’s not talking about Iran or Iraq, homies.) "In that kind of a world, conformity is idealized; you are supposed to be like everyone else; and that is because it is economically advantageous for that system to produce people who are prepared to spend their lives doing work on the predicate; basically unthinking work, on assembly lines; or in offices built to operate like assembly lines. That product of the industrial revolution is not just an economy, it’s a way of life." Oh, we’re sooo much smarter now, right? :-) LOLCATSROTFLXPALADOCIOUS!
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How Much Does The Internet Weigh?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/eAwmCE1xoBs/576
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Invasion of the Swarm Cams
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/l2XDqpKMcKQ/549
Photographic SwarmBots. Swarming Cambots. Tomato, Tomahto. Potato, Potahto. Break out the #tinfoil hat or welcome the Transparent Society? Exhibit A US accused of making insect spy robots Tom Leonard in New York Oct 10, 2007.
Exhibit B Robotic Aerial Vehicle Captures Dramatic Footage of Fukushima Reactors April 20, 2011. Erico Guizzo.
“Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, is using a T-Hawk, a remote operated flying machine created by U.S. firm Honeywell, to get a closer view of the severely damaged reactors. The T-Hawk, known as a micro air vehicle, or MAV, uses a ducted-fan propulsion system that allows it to hover in place like a helicopter and fly into tight spaces where other aircraft can’t go.” Exhibit C X Prize Team to Send Swarm of Spiders to the Moon May 13, 2009.
Exhibit D Tiny flying machines inspired by nature will revolutionize surveillance work July 28, 2011.
“Incorporating micro-cameras, these revolutionary insect-size vehicles will be suitable for many different purposes ranging from helping in emergency situations considered too dangerous for people to enter, to covert military surveillance missions.” Exhibit E Spherical Flying Machine Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense #DigInfo Oct 23, 2011. DigInfo TV
Of course, endless beneficial commercial applications could include services like Alta Shot‘s High Altitude Real Estate Photography, Land Surveys, disaster response and rescue, etc.
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#EarthOS in Context: The Circular Economy
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/1aUkIgVvB7c/529
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How to Face Terrifying Inevitabilities, Adapt, and Thrive Anyway
This amplification of Ben Adida’s thinking is about voting online; however, the trend of facing similarly terrifying inevitabilities — e.g., everyone in the world can see everyone else’s diplomatic communications and super weapons programs — will increasingly express itself across domains and disciplines over the coming decade as Transparent Big Data opens up and transforms everything. #EarthOSClipped from benlog.comVoting online for public office is a terrifying proposition to most security experts.So, terrifying. And yet, I’m now pretty sure it is inevitable.Just about everyone now carries an Internet-connected personal device.Within a few years, it’s hard to imagine any human activity that doesn’t involve the Internet.I’m not arguing that this is how it should be. I’m definitely not saying that we can secure online voting just like we can secure online banking. In fact I’ve made many of the original arguments, in my dissertation and on this blog, shooting down the bogus arguments that go something like “hey, we can secure online banking, surely we can secure online voting!” No, we don’t know how to do that. What I’m saying is that, regardless of the state of online voting security, I think it’s a losing battle to expect voting to remain the only activity we still do in person and on paper.how many ballots do you think we’re going to see next year published on Instagram?We have a deeper problem here due to the now omnipresent Internet. Voluntary privacy is not dead, since users can choose to isolate themselves. But enforced privacy, privacy imposed on the voter, the kind needed to prevent coercion, that’s quite dead. I’m very concerned about what that means for democracy. But again, this is inevitable.This issue of trustworthy user software is a much larger problem than voting. As human activity increasingly moves online, the central question is: what software is truly on the side of the user? How does the user know for sure that the software they’re using is their true agent? OK, you may now get out your pitchfork.Read more at benlog.com
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Combining Tradition with Technology, Chief Almir Surui
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/i5xj9YPXqG8/
European Zeitgeist ’09 “Chief Almir’s people made official contact with the outside world only in 1969. And the distance from that moment to being here at a Google conference, talking to us about using Google Earth and about GPS technology to map sacred ancestral places, to me is absolutely incredible. And I must say, this is an environment in which you meet a lot of amazing people, but I’m absolutely in awe of a person who has managed to make that journey in their personal life, and is trying to bring his people along with him.”
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World Airline Traffic (24-Hour Time Lapse)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/LF-Ms3VLvnc/
Another glimpse of the EarthOS humming in the background of all our lives.
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silverton posted a note on Google Buzz
http://cliqset.com/user/silverton/S2CeUSQbTNjFwwee
silverton: "Cloud, Meet Crowd" http://goo.gl/7W0xJ #Crowdsourcing + #Cloudcomputing + #Coworking == #EarthOS open for business + #SocialResponsibility
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