Some of what I come across on the web... Also check out my Content & Curation site: kristentreglia.com
242 posts
Latest Posts by krillion - Page 7
How many times did you use the word awesome today? Five, ten, fifteen times? We use the word awesome so often and, most of the time, so incorrectly that the term has lost its original sense— maybe forever. Comedian Jill Shargaa explains why in this AWESOME TED talk.
THE FUTURE CHRONICLES is the first and only future magazine that literally travels through time: Every issue deals with a new topic of social change.
The Great Filter theory suggests that all advanced civilizations eventually destroy themselves before acquiring the capacity to colonize space — a notion that could explain why we've never been visited by aliens. But there may be another reason for the celestial silence. Yes, the Great Filter exists, but we've already passed it. Here's what this would mean.
The National Intelligence Council has just released its much anticipated forecasting report, a 140-page document that outlines major trends and technological developments we should expect in the next 20 years. Among their many predictions, the NIC foresees the end of U.S. global dominance, the rising power of individuals against states, a growing middle class that will increasingly challenge governments, and ongoing shortages in water, food and energy. But they also envision a future in which humans have been significantly modified by their technologies — what will herald the dawn of the transhuman era.
Global Trends 2030 Full Report
GT2030 Blog
Wikipedia says the public, not the photojournalist, owns the rights to ape's pic.
Copyright Brouhaha!!! Even when monkeys are involved copyright is a headache!
The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept. The “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last Read more
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan's last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview)
Carl Sagan Tribute Series (working my way through list)
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Carl Sagan Experience
LOVE THIS Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)
Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable
Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan
Must order this book... Varieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and God via Brain Pickings
Campaign Reform is the cornerstone of restoring our Republic
New Plugin Shows Exactly Where Your Congressperson's Money Comes From
We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim Lawrence Lessig TED Talk 2014
OpenSecrets.org AllAreGreen.us
The Third Machine Age Could Destroy Us
How Artificial Superintelligence Will Give birth To Itself
We're Losing the Ability to See Things in the Long Term. And It's Slowly Destroying Us
Gen Z
I've started seeing a lot of buzz about Gen Z...
That's quite a lot of hype!! Here are the links to the other info on Gen Z that I've come across:
Millennials Are Old News — Here’s Everything You Should Know About Generation Z
Gen Z wants to change the world. 60% of them want to have an impact on the world, compared to 39% of millennials, according to a study by Sparks & Honey, a New York-based marketing agency. Roughly one in four Generation Z-ers are involved in volunteering. Advanced college degrees are less important to them. 64% of Gen Z-ers are considering an advanced college degree, compared to 71% of millennials.
Generations Z
Born: 1995-2012 Coming of Age: 2013-2020 Age in 2004: 0-9 Current Population: 23 million and growing rapidly ** college age 2013-2030** **Have always known the internet**
Meet Generation Z the first 10 slides are mostly for marketers, you'll find the rest of the slidedeck to be of interest (**p52)... this was prepared by Sparks & Honey (the ones that did that study I linked to above)
8 Important Education Trends in Generation Z
Generation Z will Revolutionize Education
Otis Was a Flame of Fire via foundersofamerica
The 'pre-Holocene' climate is returning - and it won't be fun
Now, however, carbon dioxide has reached levels not seen for at least 3 million years, and fossil fuel emissions have become the dominant driver of the changes to our climate. In a world potentially several degrees warmer than the one that spawned our civilization, we had better ready ourselves for some surprises.
This isn’t alarmism; it’s just sensible risk management. Retired US Navy Rear Admiral David Titley, now head of Penn State’s Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, pointed out that governments still spend money on defence, despite the declining number of people killed worldwide in war. He told the US Congress that “we rightly invest in our security and defence as one component of hedging against unknown or unlikely security risks”. Inaction on climate change violates that same fundamental risk-management principle.
What is the Anthropocene, and are you living in it?
Space Junk is Becoming a Serious Security Threat
Do some of the proposed technologies for removing space debris pose dual-use concerns?
The short answer is yes. In fact, pretty much any technology for removing debris could be used to take down a satellite under hostile circumstances. This is one of the reasons that many in the space community believe such activities will require a multilateral development approach and an international governance structure.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the Rocket Man With a Sweet Ride
Museum
Elon Musk pledges $1 million to help build Nikola Tesla Museum
The Oatmeal convinces Elon Musk to donate $1 million to Tesla Museum
Hyperloop
MINISTRY OF INNOVATION / BUSINESS OF TECHNOLOGY Hyperloop—a theoretical 760 mph transit system made of sun, air, and magnets
SpaceX
After successful landing, SpaceX to sue Air Force to compete for launch contracts
Tesla Motors
FTC sides with Tesla, says it should be allowed to sell directly to consumers
New Jersey bars Tesla from selling cars directly
Why Elon Musk Just Opened Tesla's Patents to His Biggest Rivals
#HigherEd
This is What Your Professors Really Think About You Leaving Academia
Wow... also worth taking a look at the comment section...
#purposeofeducation
Eric Smalls is a sophomore at Stanford studying computer science. In 2012, President Barack Obama featured Smalls in a campaign video about the importance of...
In response to an email about someone taking a social media hiatus
to make more time for living their own life as opposed to being just a spectator in others' lives:
As y'all know, I'm a big fan of social media ;) But I completely agree that as with every tool, there's pros and cons. However; there are just too many benefits of social media for it to decline all together... instead we'll see a plateau, as with most hype cycles, where social media will be treated as any other mode of communication (such as email, texting, phone etc). *Filters* and productivity tips are key in helping people manage the information deluge. If anything, I hope email is going to decline faster than social media because in general it is much less cost effective both in terms of time and effort.
This is an excellent article that articulates those pros and cons of social media
; you can see from the list the numerous benefits social media has over more 'traditional' methods of communication-- both in terms of scale, timeliness, and also content.... I believe that teaching people how to use these tools effectively can help keep them from feeling overwhelmed and cutting themselves off from taking advantage of being a member of various s.m. communities. Personally, I've cut back on the amount of time I spend on FB for the same reason as your friend. For me the only reason why I haven't completely deleted my account is because it lets me check in with my family/friends in a way that is more enriching than an occasional phone call or visit...
#privacy
Dow Jones asks court to unseal long-completed digital surveillance cases Tens of thousands of electronic surveillance orders are sealed from public view. via arstechnica
Federal court rules cops can warrantlessly track suspects via cellphone Geo-data received based on "reasonable grounds" phone was connected to a crime. via arstechnica
Amendment 4 by Jeff DeMaria creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo
Obama panel supports warrant requirement for e-mail, cloud content Congress has punted on issue for years. E-mail, cloud data to remain exposed. via arstechnica
No worries: NSA chief says facial recognition program is totally legal "We do not do this in some unilateral basis against US citizens," NSA chief says. via arstechnica
Talk about timing...
It's amazing that it's been a year since Glen met with Snowden and the NSA landed in the headlines for violating our 4th amendment rights to privacy, a cornerstone of democracy.
Last week the USA Freedom Act passed in the house- doublespeak from our government that allows this abuse to continue. This week Snowden gave his first American Network TV interview.
Why does this issue of privacy and democracy matter so much? After all, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide"?
----- excerpt from The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier-----
"Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
and
"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."
For the link to a short collection of other related articles, visit http://americanvirtueproject.wikispaces.com/readinglist
#Democracy
NSA reform falters as House passes gutted USA Freedom Act So-called reform measure still grants NSA broad access to phone metadata.
You cannot have a democracy without a right to privacy, where is the outrage?
Related TED talk: Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
Down the rabbit hole
A friend sent me a link to this article today: IBM Unveils a Computer that Can Argue
I don't know that I'd agree this computer is "thinking" and "learning" but it is impressive... scary and impressive... personally though, while some scientists are trying to create artificial intelligence (did they not watch Terminator?!?!?!?!?!?), I think there's a good chance that the first true AI or AIs will actually come from the Internet....
Some food for thought:
Minding the Planet: From Semantic Web to Global Mind
some of the other places (in no particular order) that I wandered after visiting that article....
http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sw2022/sw2022_paper1.pdf
http://keet.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/some-ideas-about-what-the-semantic-web-will-look-like-in-2022/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia
http://mmt.me.uk/slides/iam121009/#(1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
http://longbets.org/1/
http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/04/kurzweil-is-confident-machines-will-pass-turing-test-by-2029-video-2/
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
Intelligent life hasn't contacted us yet, possibly because it self-destructs.
videos
A speech from Carl Sagan that will make you cry
The makers of The Sagan Series bring you The Feynman Series
Richard Feynman waxes scientific about a flower, touches your freaking soul
More People Need To Know About Carolyn Porco
Changes in technology and in how information is shared both further and faster are transforming how organizations operate. Thomas Malone, of the MIT Sloan School of Management, shows how the changes in organizational structure mirror changes in how human society has organized and operated. His presentation illustrates that these changes can be primarily tied by a single factor, the cost of communication, and he presents present-day examples to show what the organization of the future may look like.
Education Reform
Dear Karl, Scott, Daniel, and John : The Future You Predicted Seems Right On Schedule
What If They All Took Art?
Asimov then considers how computers would usher in this profound change in learning and paints the outline of a concept that Clay Shirky would detail and term “cognitive surplus” two decades later:
More Congressional Fail: Elected Officials Think They Are Underpaid
(follow-up to Huffington Post piece-- read comments!)
absolutely outrageous...