John Lievens: What’s Next for the Sharing Movement?

Peers will build on key aspects of the movement that Shareable, as a pioneering sharing movement organization, helped shape. Peers’ mission is to make sharing the defining economic activity of our time. They will do this through grassroots campaigns to make sharing more visible, grow the number of sharers, and legalize sharing. What’s Next for …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Glass: Are Weaponized Nanodevices and Ultra-Miniaturization Coming?

Google Glass: Are Weaponized Nanodevices and Ultra-Miniaturization Coming? Google’s earnings for the April, May, June 2013 quarter reminded me that Google faces some challenges. Expenses moved up a couple of billion from the same quarter in 2012. (Source). More troubling, Business Insider said, “The total number of paid clicks that Google gets continues to go …

Noam Chomsky: US and Canada Virtually Expelled from South America

On Morales and Snowden, US & Canada Virtually Being Expelled from the Hemisphere On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to enter their airspace. Morales was flying home …