April 2012
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Talented Are the Nerds, For They Will Inherit the...
By Gaius Reynolds for Gaius Hears Voices
The Earth: this magical place that we are simultaneously apart of yet feel so disconnected from. It’s easy to feel like the world we live in is too large to have an attachment to actions and events thousands of miles away on the other side of the globe. Yet when compared to the size of the Solar System, Galaxy, and of course Universe, it is even...
March 2012
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Google Consciousness: Social media resolving... →
In our TEDx talk, we mention that using social media to replace government would begin to happen sooner than expected and this would be more likely to lead to ‘win-win’ outcomes to any citizen choosing to use it. We mention Wikipedia as an example of Israel and Palestinian citizens using...(read more)
February 2012
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We are still citizens on the internet.
January 2012
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Google Consciousness spreading...
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The PIRATE BAY's response to SOPA/PIPA
Posted in full from Reddit.
INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012. PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.
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December 2011
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November 2011
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I am an Egyptian protestor - we are now mobilizing... →
googleconsciousness:
I’m writing this post from Liberation Square, the heart and center of the Egyptian revolution.
If you dont know it already we’re rising against military ruling in the same way we have risen against Mubarak’s regime, we’ve taken our protests to the streets in main cities since the dawn of the 19th of November, I’ve been away from my home for about 28 hours now.
We’ve been...
Google Consciousness: Using the web to re-organize... →
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In our talk “Google Consciousness”, we use the metaphor #googcon as a symbol of collective intelligence re-organizing society using nothing more complex than available social media tools such as wiki’s, Google labs and feeds such as Twitter and Facebook.
This idea appears to be picking up more…
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“Welcome to Collective Intelligence. We are the 100%.”
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(via googleconsciousness)
REDDIT goes viral with Internet Democracy 2.0 →
By Rome Viharo for Google Consciousness
Back in April, when Maf Lewis and I were giving our TEDx talk on Google Consciousness - we playfully mentioned the possibilities of ‘Reddit Consciousness’ and suggested that these sorts of phenomenon would emerge to produce systems of social administration that would eventually replace government.
A few days ago on Reddit, user ‘Humans,...
September 2011
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We will become the authors of our own genetic... →
A range of genetic disorders will be identified at birth, or even conception, and tiny, preprogrammed viruses will be sent into the body to penetrate compromised cells and correct the damage. Changing the adult body at the first signs of illness will be just as easy, he predicts.
There’s no reason, Prof Church says, why people won’t be able to live to be 120, and then...
Creepy genetic engineering technology makes...
These soldiers are the first of a new kind of creature - “autocidal” maniacs genetically modified to wipe out their own kind without harming other creatures. The first animals being targeted with these “living pesticides” are disease-carrying mosquitoes and crop-munching caterpillars, but the approach should work with just about any animal - from invasive fish and frogs to...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Google Consciousness Explained. →
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Daniel Dennett’s model of consciousness in his landmark book “Consciousness Explained” deconstructs the ‘I’ experience down to ‘homunculi’ competing in the brain, each one a bit more stupid than the next until you get a ‘neuron’. That neuron he likens to a machine - but only in the…
June 2011
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Google Consciousness: Lulzsec says goodbye, claims... →
googleconsciousness:
Their statement:
Friends around the globe,
We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many…
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Google Consciousness: Why Lulzsec and Revolution... →
UPDATE: Lulzsec has just claimed to disband
googleconsciousness:
These “daughter groups” seem based on their region , on twitter I have seen “lulzsec” based groups for brazil and there have been reports of graffiti tags showing the word “antisec” and lulzsec’s mascot image in San Diego, I do not know how many other groups such as this are out there, but…
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US program to spy on Arab social media and mobile... →
Lulzsec and Anonymous Declare Open War Against All...
The social media revolution which is bent on tearing down old structures has just upped the ante a notch or two.
It’s quite a bold declaration of war.
Salutations Lulz Lizards,
As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think...
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Egyptians most sensible nation to create Social... →
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’Google Consciousness’ as a metaphor for recreating social administration through social media is, as the TED talk mentions, more likely to happen and succeed than most people are aware of.
The irony of history has it. The cradle of civilization which has for the first time in 3000 years overthrown it’s leadership has the historic responsibility to create a bright and...
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Google Consciousness #4 Most Popular on TED
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http://tedxtalks.ted.com/pages/popular
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TED.com picks up GOOGLE CONSCIOUSNESS, presented at TEDxCardiff, Wales April 9th, 2011.
Obama Admin creates 'secret' internet for...
The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”
Financed with a $2...
“It’s true that social media is often thought of as nothing more than a...”
– How Social Media Is Changing Disaster Response (via futuramb)
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TEDx: Google Consciousness - Rome Viharo and Maf...
Anonymous Message to NATO →
May 2011
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Iran Vows to Unplug Internet
The leadership in Iran sees the project as a way to end the fight for control of the Internet, according to observers of Iranian policy inside and outside the country. Iran, already among the most sophisticated nations in online censoring, also promotes its national Internet as a cost-saving measure for consumers and as a way to uphold Islamic moral codes.
Read more at the Wall Street Journal.
“The first thing everyone needs to realize is that customer data is the new...”
– Bob Egan, chief analyst for the Sepharim Group, a market research company, in relationship to Google’s ‘digital wallet’ collecting more data. Read more.
Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 "lion's...
Via Ars Technia
When Barlow had a chance to speak, he expressed his own surprise at being on the panel, “because I don’t think I’m from the same planet, actually.” He then proceeded to trash the foundational assumptions of everyone who had just spoken.
“I may be one of very few people in this room who actually makes his living personally by creating what these gentlemen are...
Just what is #Bitcoin exactly?
What is Bitcoin? By Promotional Codes
“Internet governance and civil society groups issued a statement charging that...”
– France attempts to “civilize” the Internet; Internet fights back
French President Nicolas Sarkozy At eG8:... →
Bridging such differences about how the Internet could or should be more regulated took center stage Tuesday at an “e-G8” meeting aimed to parlay the digital world’s growing economic clout into a cohesive message for world leaders at the Group of Eight summit later this week in Normandy.
Read more by Jamey Keaton @ HuffPo.
Know your new money, know BITCOIN →
If you do not yet know about BITCOIN, you probably should. The new internet digital currency is the latest new adopter #buzz.
Wired Insider below talks about the stress of early adoption on this potentially lucrative platform.
wiredinsider:
I’d like to go back in time a couple of weeks. Nothing crazy, no adventures back to the Fifties to save my parents marriage or anything like that. Just...
RIAA Bill seeks to 'nullify' U.S. Constitution →
With Senator Alex Padilla’s Bill 550 Californian law enforcement would no longer require a warrant to raid places where they suspect pirated disks may be located.
The Bill goes directly against the U.S. constitution, but according to the Senator that’s not a problem if the revenues of the entertainment industries are at stake.
Read more at TorrentFreak.
“So this is what Facebook is upset about? Really?
Google social search showed...”
– How Invasive is Google Social Circles, Anyway? | PCWorld
“SONY, I AM DISAPPOINT” - anon”
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Anonymous response to PHONY SONY claim.
SONY, I AM DISAPPOINT
April 2011
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Media Social: Presenting Google Consciousness at... →
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By Rome Viharo for Media Social
On Saturday, April 9th Maf Lewis and I were thrilled to present “Google Consciousness” at TEDxCardiff along a line up of quite inspiring and thought provoking speakers.
The talk spanned the story and genesis of how the ‘meme’ Google Consciousness is…
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TEDxCardiff – A big thank you! →
By Neil Cocker, organizer for TEDxCardiff
Maf Lewis & Rome Viharo – The two coolest philosophy professors you never had!
Read the full report from Neil @ at the TEDxCDF blog
February 2011
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Antoine Dodson, Other YouTube Celebrities Making... →
The film stars Dodson, known for the Bed Intruder Song, Bear Vasquez (“Double Rainbow Guy”), Brian Collins (“Boom Goes the Dynamite”), Ben Schulz (“Leeroy Jenkins”), Gary Brolsma (“Numa Numa”), and Stephen and Jack Quire (“Greatest Freakout Ever”). Together they account for hundreds of millions of YouTube views.
Read more via Huff...
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How social media can be the new government - Wael...
By Rome Viharo for Media Social.
Social Media has the potential not just for Wael Ghonim’s Revolution 2.0 as witnessed in the events in Egypt, but also new form of government -Democracy 2.0, an administrative system organized by the same process that organizes social media. Imagine voting via something like Twitter, overturning laws via something like Facebook, and arguing court cases via...
Flirting with Cleverbot, web AI
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January 2011
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The "WikiLeaks Revolution" in Tunisia -...
The ouster followed the country’s largest protests in generations and weeks of escalating unrest, sparked by one man’s suicide and fueled by social media, cell phones and young people who have seen relatively little benefit from Tunisia’s recent economic growth. Thousands of demonstrators from all walks of life rejected Ben Ali’s promises of change and mobbed Tunis, the...