The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This Handy Device Will Let You Send Text Messages Even After The Grid Crashes
Communicate without the need for any central connectivity — no Wi-Fi, cell towers or satellites needed. The gadget uses long-range radio waves — between 151-154 MHz — to send messages to other goTenna devices within its range. Depending on the surrounding terrain and elevation, the device can send messages up to 50 miles away. In the city, the range shrinks to roughly 1 mile.
They have been working on it for years and it seems ready to go now. I believe that the SAFE network could be our chance of re-making the internet from the bottom up, using our own resources instead of centralised servers for our data and our communications.
Project SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) aims to create a decentralized and secure Internet 2.0 (here is a whitepaper). The SAFE Network is a secure and fully decentralized data management service. The network is made up from the unused computer resources provided by the network users.
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: End of Servers II – Future of the Internet”
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 1
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 2
Very thoughtful. A serious list.
25 Disruptive Technology Trends for 2015 – 2016
LIST ONLY
1) Social Media 1.0 is dead.
2) The future of search and SEM also lies outside of Google.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Brian Solis on 25 Disruptive Technology Trends”
In January 2014, I wrote this blog post announcing my intention to write a book on Digital Humanitarians. Well, it's done! And launches this week. The book has already been endorsed by scholars at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, etc; by practitioners at the United Nations, World Bank, Red Cross, USAID, DfID, etc; and by others including Twitter and National Geographic. These and many more endorsements are available here. Brief summaries of each book chapter are available here; and the short video below provides an excellent overview of the topics covered in the book.
Together, these overviews make it clear that this book is directly relevant to many other fields including journalism, human rights, activism, business management, computing, ethics, social science, data science, etc. In short, the lessons that digital humanitarians have learned (often the hard way) over the years and the important insights they have gained are directly applicable to fields well beyond the humanitarian space. To this end, Digital Humanitarians is written in a “narrative and conversational style” rather than with dense, technical language. The story of digital humanitarians is a multifaceted one. Read more.
Continue reading “Patrick Meier: Digital Humanitarians – The Book”
This is the best tech article this year (so far). Newsy, with context. Welcome to the chainiacs!
There’s a blockchain for that!
The code that secures Bitcoin could also power an alternate Internet. First, though, it has to work.
Continue reading “Kevin Kelly: BitCoin Block Chain Next Internet?”
Live video broadcast of the very first Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup in Palo Alto, California. Presenting: “The Philosophy of Autonomy” by Joel Dietz, co-founder DAS, SWARM – Texture, co-founder DAS, Ethereum – Vitalik, founder Ethereum – Eric Smalls, founder MANNA – Paige Peterson, Maidsafe. In Palo Alto in the early 1990s were born the first stirrings of cryptogovernment, something that eventually evolved into Bitcoin. Today, we enter the second stage of that revolution, human freedom empowered by blockchain technology.
Phi Beta Iota: A great deal of deep philosophy — ethics — embedded.
