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State of the World 2012

• #165: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Sat 14 Jan 12 06:49
  Of course, if you're REALLY geeked-out circa 2012, you've got your own Chaos Computer Club hacker satellite overhead instead of a mere covert drone.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367042 [Read entire topic] […]
• #164: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Sat 14 Jan 12 06:39
  Imagine roaming the world with nothing but credit-cards, a ScottEVest, police cargo pants, *and a re-purposed pet police drone.* Maybe with a lethal covert-strike capacity!Man, you'd be hell on wheels. Angle it right, and you wouldn't even need the wheels. [Read entire topic] […]
• #163: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Sat 14 Jan 12 06:35
  *This travel writer circled the earth in the clothes he was standing up in, just to make a point for a vest manufacturer.http://www.rtwblog.com/2011/01/best-of-the-no-baggage-challenge/*The real point is about the power of just-in-time global telecommunications; he just arranges things so that his crew is in place wherever he goes. That way he got to maximiz […]
• #162: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sat 14 Jan 12 06:30
  Occupy the Sky with citizen drones: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/occupy-drones/"Having thoroughly figured out how to cover giant events from ground level, they are now exploring ultra-cheap alternatives to the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollar news choppers used for aerial reporting of big events like protest marches and police clashes. In the […]
• #161: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Sat 14 Jan 12 06:21
  *Dematerialized technomad wanders the planet in nothing but high-end sports gear. Plus Apple internet and cell access, of course.http://www.grist.org/list/2012-01-04-this-guy-only-owns-15-things 1. Arc*teryx Miura 30 backpack 2. NAU shirt 3. Mammut rain jacket 4. Arc*teryx tshirt 5. Patagonia running shorts 6. Quick Dry towel 7. NAU wool jacket 8. Toiletry k […]
• #160: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Sat 14 Jan 12 06:14
  *The Economist suggests that we'll soon have so many drones in the sky that they'll have to have "deconfliction" anti-crash hardware installed, so they don't bash into one another and tumble into the civilian streets.American drones will, naturally, be hovering in a cloud of American lawsuits.http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/20 […]
• #159: From Kenny Mann (captward) Sat 14 Jan 12 03:18
  Kenny Mann via e-mail:"These guys would have been biding their time somewhere out of sight, since 1953"*Yeah man, the good old days, like Boris Vian reviewing the first album by Serge Gainsbourgh.It's just a reboot. The kids are alright, back at home, in the rest of the story -- rocking -- while our hero is lost out there in K.C., checking his […]
• #158: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Fri 13 Jan 12 20:04
  *Sign of the times: Electronic Frontier Foundation spots menacing drones on the electronic frontier.Electronic Frontier Foundation Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 10, 2012Contact:Jennifer Lynch Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation jlynch@eff.org +1 415-436-9333 x136Who Is Flying Unmanned Aircraft in the U.S.?Government Withholds […]
• #157: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 13 Jan 12 15:14
  From the article at that second link:"Not acting dead involves a strategic spending pattern that marketers are starting to call trading up: buying premium in some areas of your life, while buying budget or entirely forgoing spending in other areas. This pattern of conscious, discriminating consumption defines the emerging replacement for the middle clas […]
• #156: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 13 Jan 12 15:12
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