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[T]he tactics that Brand deployeed in the Catalog—peer production, aggregation, and curation—became models for digitized processes that have dramatically enlarged and diversified membership in the public sphere. At the same time however, the Catalog and community it served should remind us of the hidden costs of putting our hopes for social change in the technology-empowered,…
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matthen: Chaos Theory is a very important area of mathematics which can explain a lot of what we see in the real world. A pendulum with one mass is relatively easy to explain mathematically, and it behaves nicely. However if you put another mass in there, it behaves chaotically. Technically, this means that if you…
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emergentfutures: A brain area unique to humans is linked to strategic planning/decision making/multitasking Oxford University researchers have identified a specific area of the human brain that appears to be unlike anything in the brains of some of our closest relatives. MRI imaging of 25 adult volunteers was used to identify key components in the area…
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Without strong net neutrality rules, an ISP can interfere with a user’s access to content online – that could mean, for example, blocking controversial content or discriminating against a competitor’s site. We’ve seen it happen before. In 2007, Verizon Wireless blocked text messages from the reproductive rights group NARAL. That same year, Comcast was caught…