Even so, many people here, while disliking Google for some things,
also recognize that some of the tech giants are making real efforts on
environmental issues, and some of them are trying to at least consider
how they affect local communities. But sometimes it's hard to
Certainly any of these
I would like to recommend the work of my friend and collegue Astrid Mager here,
regarding the ideological and socio-cultural implications of the Google-effect:
http://oeaw.academia.edu/AstridMager
There is always ideology, and with an infocapitalist economy these are of
course not lessened by
On 05/13/2014 12:31 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
Now that Google's halo is a wee bit dented some deeper reflection on what
Google might, through its search algorithms, be doing to our underlying
frameworks of knowledge--either inadvertently by structuring them in pursuit
of its commercial goals
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On 05/13/2014 12:17 AM, John Hopkins wrote:
Even so, many people here, while disliking Google for some
things, also recognize that some of the tech giants are making
real efforts on environmental issues, and some of them are trying
to at least
if one reads, the IIC -industrial internet cons. documents and others from
Cisco, GE on the IoE, one sees how openly these guys argue for 'connecting work
and people on the move' the technoutopic way towards singularity which passes
through the realisation of Internet of Free Labour in material
On May 13, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Brian Holmes bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com wrote,
but not in this order:
Why the military robots? Why not remember Manuel De Landa's little book, War
In the Age of Intelligent Machines, which caused such a stir in its day? De
Landa predicted that computers would
Indeed Brian!
Geez, why couldn't the Stanford folks have just stuck with Pong?
Which for me suggests the rhetorical question: What is it that we searching for?
JH
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photographer, media artist, archivist
Hi nettimers,
I don't get as much time to read (let alone to post to) nettime as would like
but just wanted to underline the previous posts in this thread that made
remarks on google/Kurzweil.
Not only is the Kurzweil--other-transhumanists agenda emerging from the
private sector (for example
Just now from our engineers:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7258.txt
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)S. Farrell
Request for Comments: 7258Trinity College Dublin
BCP: 188 H. Tschofenig
