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frontline: the persuaders: watch online | PBS: May 6, 8:33pm 8 reviews activism, advertising, consumerism, information-age
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/view/; Learn all about the tactics being used on YOU. If this is what's happening NOW imagine what's going to be tried in the future? Informational Pollen anyone? I'm reading Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge and this idea is expressed as a "pseudomimi virus", an informational agent that persuades groups exposed unconsciously. Not too far off..

Coming soon: superfast internet - Times Online: Apr 6, 3:52pm 43 reviews internet, news, networks, technology, information-age
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece; "Entrust all their information to the internet"??? Uhm, why? The principle part of this new network--incredibly high speeds of transfer--sounds awesome but I don't like this idea of entrusting information to be mostly non-local. At the very least give me the ability to keep information locally for my own purposes. Since this is still a wired-technology it still has some of the disadvantages of any physical infrastructure. So what's this going to cost? Is it even available for people like you and me?
From the page: "Ian Bird, project leader for Cern's high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet."
"It will lead to what's known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere," he said."

Internet Content Monitoring | InternetCM: Apr 1, 8:52pm 1 review cyberculture, information, information-age
http://www.internetcm.com/; This seems like a simple service that could surely be of value. Although the free RSS feature of many blogs/news sources may be enough for most of us.

What comes after the information age - OReilly Radar: Mar 26, 7:53pm 3 reviews society, information-age
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/what_comes_afte.html; Very true. This author talks about what I would call Trivial Learnings (that's a minor addition to a common system of knowledge) and Systemic Enhancements (what the author noted as a paradigm shift, where new systemic tools are installed into your understanding/worldview.) While the notion of long-distance education is still maturing, and the semantic web is still being built I'd have to say we're definitely still in the information age. Perhaps what's next will be another age of enlightenment or a dark age, it's really our choice. Billions need to catch up to participate in what will become our biggest challenge as Homo Sapiens to date.

Glossary of Information Warfare Terms: Mar 26, 7:40pm 1 review network-security, information-age
http://www.psycom.net/iwar.2.html; I realize that in my months of wonder regarding the information age and it's warfare I've never educated myself about terms involved in such planning. Here is a list of some acronyms and words relevant to information warfare

HeraldNet: Dog video illustrates new, public face of war: Mar 25, 6:22am 4 reviews society, panopticon, information-age
http://heraldnet.com/article/20080323/NEWS01/494370088; The Panopticon looms closer!!

GREGORY BATESON: The Centennial: Mar 23, 9:08pm 2 reviews philosophy, genius, intelligence, cybernetics, information-age
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bateson04/bateson04_index.html; Gregory Bateson, which whom I haven't read much of yet, seems to really Jive with my understanding and experiences. He's a mostly under-appreciated intellectual with plenty of essays and ideas yet to be discovered and utilized by the general populace. "Bateson presents a new approach based on a cybernetic epistemology: "The individual mind is immanent but not only in the body. It is immanent also in the pathways and messages outside the body; and there is a larger mind of which the individual mind is only a subsystem. This larger mind is comparable to God and is perhaps what some people mean by 'God,' but it is still immanent in the total interconnected social system and planetary ecology."" "Bateson defies simple labeling, easy explanation. People have problems with his work. He talks of being an explorer who cannot know what he is exploring until it has been explored." From what I can tell he is describing what may be Memes right here:
"Any descriptive proposition," he says, "which remains true longer will out-survive other propositions which do not survive so long. This switch from the survival of the creatures to the survival of ideas which are immanent in the creatures (in their anatomical forms and in their interrelationships) gives a totally new slant to evolutionary ethics and philosophy. Adaptation, purpose, homology, somatic change, and mutation all take on new meaning with this shift in theory."

Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology: Mar 23, 11:47am 28 reviews science, information-age
http://www.technologyreview.com/; Full of great, inspiring, and motivating content regarding where we are going with our technological enhancement.

Citizen Cyborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mar 18, 8:33pm 1 review futurism, cyborg, cybernetics, information-age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Cyborg; What we are becoming! Let's plan ahead.

New Glasses Can Help You Find Your Car Keys,good,news,good news,positive,positi…: Mar 15, 11:09pm 8 reviews science, cybernetics, information-age
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/892/14/03/2008/New_Glasses_Can_Help_You...; Beautiful! I can imagine using this system at the store where I work! We have hundreds of items, and most of them are in stock in the top floor warehouse. It would be sheer ecstasy to be able to search for a particular object and get directions to where it is. It would alleviate some of the issues I have with my own wet-ware, that is, competing needs for storage space. I recognize that when I'm reading intensely at home on my days off my memories of stock at work are somewhat impaired. Having a system like this would most definitely make it easier for me and MUCH easier for people working with much much more stuff.

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