Hottest June Ever!
“June was the 352nd consecutive month in a row with temperatures that were above the global average,” per Climate Central. […]
Climate Change, Global
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Future of the Internet, Global, Government, Politics
The Internet inherits war
Bruce Schneier at Technology Review: Arms races are fueled by two things: ignorance and fear. We don’t know the capabilities
Environment/Climate, Futures, Global, Knowledge
Jamais Cascio at Inkwell
Futurist Jamais Cascio is holding forth about scenarios, foresight, and climate change at Inkwell on the WELL. If you have
Culture, Global, Science
Dawkins on fundamentalism
Dr. Richard Dawkins challenges global religious superstition and anti-science fundamentalism. In this video from Slashdot, he makes a point similar
Events, Future of the Internet, Futures, Global
Bruce Sterling at SXSW Interactive 2012
After introducing Bruce I dove into Twitter and live tweeted his talk. People told me afterward that they thought it was too cheerful – see what you think from these short bursts (I was typing faster than I could think.) Comments encouraged.
Futures, Global
State of the World 2012
Bruce Sterling and I are holding forth in our annual State of the World conversation on the WELL. Here’s the
Global
U.S. journalist Mona Eltahawy detained, beaten, sexually assaulted in Egypt
The whole story is at boingboing.net This is the quote I wanted to blog: “The whole time I was thinking about
Global, Politics
Ratko Mladic’s arrest
Jasmina Tesanovic posts about the arrest of Ratko Mladic here. As a further financial twist, the state still owes the
Global
Jasmina Tesanovic: Big Day for Italy
Read Jasmina’“Big Day for Italy”: Living in Torino, Jasmina is not far from the beatification ceremonies for Pope John Paul
Futures, Global, Journalism, Social Media, Teaching and Learning
The future of global online journalism
(Update: Alfred Hermida blogs Vivian Schiller’s 7 reasons to be cheerful about journalism at Reportr.net.) The evolution of networked global
Democracy, Global, News, Politics
Egypt’s fired up
Coincidentally while I’ve been at the TXGov20Camp that I’ve worked on (via EFF-Austin, along with the LBJ School), what looks
Futures, Global
“American soft power is vanishing”
Bruce Sterling and I are well into our annual State of the World conversation over on the WELL. Bruce, who’s
Democracy, Futures, Global, Government, Journalism
Personal Democracy Forum’s flash summit on Wikileaks
Video archive of Saturday’s Wikileaks discussion, which was quite compelling… quite a bit about the new world of journalism and