Apparitions

State of the World 2012

• #124: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Tue 10 Jan 12 19:22
  Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost, I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost, For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town.~ Bruce Springsteen, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" [Read entire topic] […]
• #123: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Tue 10 Jan 12 19:20
  An origin of cyberpunk in the work of Bruce Springsteen, via William Gibson:"I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were actually involved in the nascent digital industry were exciting. I wondered what it would be like if they were exciting, stylish, and sexy. I found the answer not so much in punk rock as in Bruce Spring […]
• #122: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Tue 10 Jan 12 17:55
  "Doomsday Clock moves to five minutes to midnight 10 JANUARY 2012(...)"Few of the Bulletin's recommendations of 2010 have been taken up; they still require urgent attention if we are to avert catastrophe from nuclear weapons and global warming. At a minimum these include:"Ratification by the United States and China of the Comprehensive Te […]
• #121: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Tue 10 Jan 12 13:17
  Reality check. Doomsday Clock set to 5 minutes til Midnight:http://www.thebulletin.org/content/media-center/announcements/2012/01/10/doomsday-clock-moves-to-five-minutes-to-midnight [Read entire topic] […]
• #120: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Tue 10 Jan 12 11:55
  Meanwhile another big quake in Indonesia triggers a tsunami warning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16497747 [Read entire topic] […]
• #119: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Tue 10 Jan 12 11:24
  "Where Is Italy Going?" Here's an English-language commentator, Alex Roe, who thinks that Italian politics have taken a major turn for the better.http://italychronicles.com/where-is-italy-going/Roe (@newsfromitaly) says: "Really, all Monti wants to do is to make Italy function properly. Whether Monti intends modelling Italy after the Unit […]
• #118: From Walt Dangerfield (captward) Tue 10 Jan 12 10:32
  Walt Dangerfield, via e-mail:Speaking of iphone doctors, new XPrize to create a Star Trek style tricorder: [Read entire topic] […]
• #117: From Walt Dangerfield (captward) Tue 10 Jan 12 10:04
  Walt Dangerfield, via e-mail:Charlie Stross went off on the possibility of large epidemics in that link earlier as well. He mentions the increasing exposure of bugs long hidden in the wilderness to human hosts. It's certainly a real threat and I'd like to see governments putting more resources into combating plagues than terrorism.On the other hand […]
• #116: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Tue 10 Jan 12 08:36
  Crowdsourcing tuberculosis research. Hurry, Internet.http://poptech.org/blog/collaboration_alert_sarah_fortune_and_lukas_biewald [Read entire topic] […]
• #115: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Tue 10 Jan 12 08:12
  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/invincible-tb-india/I hate to mention this year's emergence of "Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis," because it plays into the hands of travel-security paranoiacs and makes everybody stare in hypochondriac horror at a wet kleenex. It's an unpleasant topic, but unwise to ignore. Sometimes epidemic […]