rise and decline of Google

2012-03-14 Thread Geert Lovink
Seen these? http://truthonthemarket.com/2012/03/12/google-isnt-leveraging-its-dominance-its-fighting-to-avoid-obsolescence/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-01-09/decline-and-fall-of-the-google-empire http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archi

Re: Prisonhouse of Age

2012-03-14 Thread Morlock Elloi
Help is on the way. While the real cause of the coming real war is to fix the economy, there is a convenient and liberating side effect: flattening of life expectancy distribution. Everyone will be (realistically) looking at few more years to live. Democracy at its finest. You'll feel young aga

Prisonhouse of Age

2012-03-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
Prisonhouse of Age Something has to be said about age and ageism, which is so pervasive in our culture, that we're held down, tied up, unable to move. I'm told I look good for my age; that I play like a much younger person. In a performance I hear that a dancer, who died at 68, was in the middle