When KONY 2012 hit the tubes of the Internet the world was alight with passion, emotion and drive. The reality of becoming a Batman-like justice bearer was closer then ever for millions around the world. The Invisible Children had presented an argument, and associated data and facts, that presented a situation that was fraught with… Continue Reading
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Can technology replace consumerism in the 21st Century?
It’s hard to consume any kind of media and not identify some form of rejection of consumerism. Global capitalism, for all its virtues, has propelled our world into a direction that has seemingly far more casualties than it does benefactors. One needs only to turn to the global ecological crisis or the debt nightmare in… Continue Reading
The time for Lulz is over
As most have seen in the past day or so many key figures within the groups Anonymous and LulzSec have been arrested and face multiple decades of incarceration. This critical blow to the Internet-based vigilante group devastates the very infrastructure of activity that has, to date, kept a critical check on secrecy, exploitation and manipulation… Continue Reading
Why the future of money depends on your soul
There was an interesting post that was floating around the internet-o-sphere recently in which a nurse was recalling the top themes of a person’s last dying wish. As you would imagine there were few instances of people grasping their credit cards and PayPal passwords wishing for more money. Which brings us to the whole future of… Continue Reading
An open letter to our man Zuck
Dear Mark – AKA Zuck, I know we haven’t formally met IRL but we hang out in similar circles. You see, the four of us are all a part of the Internet and we’re getting a little worried with everything that’s been going on. SOPA is kind of freaking us out and the guys who… Continue Reading
SOPA – A symptom of something much bigger
Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence where revealing and unconcealment takes place, where altheia, truth, happens. Martin Heidegger as translated by William Lovitt Throughout his essays on technology Heidegger grapples with grand questions concerning technology. He tackles with its essence, what it is, how it works and what it does…. Continue Reading