The Tahrir Project Tahrir will be decentralized anonymous Twitter, from the crazy fool that brought you Freenet. It is early days but I’m making rapid progress. Tahrir aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous “workalike” for Twitter. Overview Architecture Frequently Asked Questions Autonomous Internet Google Group Comment: Not sure what it solves what …
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Jane McGonigal 6 Star for Concept–Ignores Past Pioneers–Energizes Us All February 28, 2011 I took the time to read all of the reviews to date, and was reminded again of the chasm between those who understand technology and its possibilities, and those who do not. Being among the latter, in part because I am a …
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NightWatch Essay: Some time ago, David Goldman, purporting to channel Oswald Spengler for Asia Times Online, wrote a farsighted essay [And Spengler is…] that anticipated, predicted and warned that modern impulses in the youth of the Middle East would rise up against conservative institutions to assert a modern definition of being Arab, Berber, Turk, Persian …
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Six top hits on future information operations, five Phi Beta Iota references on same.
http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu http://twitter.com/Liberationtech Lying at the intersection of social science, computer science, and engineering, the Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. See Also: Autonomous Internet (36)
Phi Beta Iota: We have noticed with irritation the number of beltway bandits and think tanks claiming to have OpenBTS well in hand, and vying for the declining government dollar. There is only one company that has a legitimate claim to offering OpenBTS, and that company’s name is Range Networks, featured at DEMO 2010 and …
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