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State of the World 2012

• #64: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Fri 6 Jan 12 18:42
  What gives with the new Predator Shuttle here, one wonders.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/06/x_37b_spying_tiangong_1/ [Read entire topic] […]
• #63: Gearteeth (echodog) Fri 6 Jan 12 16:54
  >Islamic Caliphate... With the collapse of so many Arab regimes, these >guys are in the condition of dogs that caught a taxi. "Sharia Law" is >practically useless for any contemporary purpose, and Arabs never >agree about anything except forcing non-Arabs to believe.I'd appreciate some clarification on this point. Do you mean that […]
• #62: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 6 Jan 12 15:01
  This interview with Clement Valla suggests aesthetic singularity: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/jan/3/artist-profile-clement-valla/"At this moment I think human and computer activity is hardly distinguishable. I am interested in the moments where the typical distinction is blurred or even inverted. Take Amazon's Mechanical Turk, billed as artif […]
• #61: for dixie southern iraq (stet) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:46
  Fascinating discussion, at which I arrive late. One influential catchphrase I didn't see referenced was the one Thomas Friedman picked up from Infosys' Nandan Nilekani, 'the world is flat.' Problems used to remain much more drastically localized. Now, they feedback and build across the planet. And we have bad precedents in parts of the pa […]
• #60: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:34
  Military balloon deploys "Tempest" drone, which deploys "Cicada" drones.http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/balloon-drones/ [Read entire topic] […]
• #59: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:20
  : "I think the Tea Party and OWS are both responses to the failure of more conventional institutions to address things like growing economic inequality and de-industrialization."I suppose you're right, but it's not surprising that institutions that've been gutted and hung out to evaporate in the climate-nouveau sun fail to address th […]
• #58: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:11
  Bruce sez "The logical extension of domination by the global ultra-wealthy, and/or the local warlords, is for everyday people to become their gangster molls and hired henchmen....This prospect may seem like a stretch for Americans who've never witnessed or experienced that life, but globally, quite a lot of people do live like this."This is th […]
• #57: Peter Meuleners (pjm) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:10
  Good post, Mark. [Read entire topic] […]
• #56: Mark McDonough (mcdee) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:08
  Ironically, I think the Tea Party and OWS are both responses to the failure of more conventional institutions to address things like growing economic inequality and de-industrialization.The Tea Party is a little trickier to analyze because it is both a genuine movement of populist political outrage, and a movement manipulated and in part created by the […]
• #55: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 6 Jan 12 13:05
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