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State of the World 2012

• #137: goatknockin (jonl) Thu 12 Jan 12 05:52
  Via email from "goatknockin":re: #91" People are always gonna say, "surely this is Weimar Germany again, all hope is lost" but here's somebody else saying, "this is 1977 again, there is NO FUTURE. Again."http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/07/punk-fashion-sex-pistols*Except it's a "no future" for po […]
• #136: George Mokray (jonl) Wed 11 Jan 12 20:13
  Via email from George Mokray:The Occupy sites could become models for resilient refugee camps, self-sufficient for energy and efficient in waste recycling for use. After all, they were/are/will be "voluntary" economic refugee camps. Could they become models for the emergency and disaster facilities we regularly need (and a new line of camping equip […]
• #135: Julie Sherman (julieswn) Wed 11 Jan 12 20:10
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• #134: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Wed 11 Jan 12 16:19
  Whole 'nother meaning to "Smart Mob", Mafia now Italy's #1 bank:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/10/us-italy-mafia-idUSTRE8091YX20120110 [Read entire topic] […]
• #133: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Wed 11 Jan 12 15:52
  I did read that Charlie Stross piece today, though not all the hundreds of comments that followed, despite the fact that so many of them looked interesting at a glance. There's always too much good stuff to read and digest; if we have attention deficits, it's because there are so many roadside attractions, all seductive.Stross was talking about the […]
• #132: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Wed 11 Jan 12 13:32
  I see your motorcycle magnet bomb, and raise you this headline: "Google predicts flu, fountain spews germs, boy blows up silo..." http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/healthyperspective/post/2012-01-11/google-flu-stress-norms-elder-abuse-waterfall-legionnaires-disease-cancer-boy-blows-up-building-/600908/1Actually a set of unrelated stories, though […]
• #131: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Wed 11 Jan 12 12:11
  Speaking of which, I sure wish I could interview the Mossad guy who designs and builds magnetic limpet mines for Iranian nuclear scientists. What a career this dude must have.When the results of his labors hit Google News -- "men on motorcycles blow nuclear scientist and unnamed companion to bits" -- what's his personal reaction, I wonder? I […]
• #130: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Wed 11 Jan 12 12:03
  http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/01/11/phobos_grunt_the_u_s_didn_t_shoot_down_russia_s_mars_probe_but_it_could_have_.html*So, the "Phobos-Grunt" Russian Mars probe came to a bad end, and here Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Russia's space agency, hints that it was done in through spacewar foul play.*I'm guessing this is "P […]
• #129: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Wed 11 Jan 12 11:59
  Venessa Miemis writes very good "back to square one, let's rethink the world" posts. Latest is here: http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/01/10/core-principles-for-the-new-economy-human-agency-enlightened-self-interest/"I believe in a social and economic future that is convivial, vibrant, thriving, and life-enhancing for all. We live with pas […]
• #128: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Wed 11 Jan 12 11:51
  "So then we look at a picture of the globe at night. What's out there in the dark spaces where the enlightenment has not yet reached?"I'm inclined to think that the "dark spaces" are the ones where the enlightenment is in full retreat. Chernobyl and Fukushima, for two. [Read entire topic] […]