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Thread ID: 135993 2014-01-07 09:52:00 State of the World 2014 zqwerty (97) PC World Chat
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1364608 2014-01-07 09:52:00 One of my favourite times of the year because of this annual event:

A sample:

"On the ground in the USA, it's surprising how blasé (outside EFFish
geekdom) has been the response to NSA surveillance and new maps of the
panopticon, slightly revealed by Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. It's not
that we don't want or even expect privacy. It's more like a state of
shock, the reality of growing persistent domestic surveillance is
somehow distant an unreal. It's like we're watching the Man from
U.N.C.L.E., the bad acts are bad video, some sort of fiction imposed by
deus ex Tom Clancy. We have the same response to the careful
dismantling of government and whole sections of the former middle class
- it's a film by Frank Capra, or maybe Judd Apatow. A cheesy bit of
cinema that will somehow resolve itself, credits will eventually roll,
we'll step out of the fantasy and into the light of day, and everything
will be fine, just fine. But what we're watching is not cinema, but a
maleficent YouTube video gone viral, shot by rabid weasels with an
infected Android, looping constantly like Einstein's definition of
insanity. We've dozed off watching it, fallen into nested dream states
fed by networks of fantasy, no clear way to consciousness.

Another way to see it: slammed by a firehose of information, it's hard
to know anything, to be other than intellectually numb and detached
from any sense of broad existential danger."

www.well.com 		zqwerty (97)
1364609 2014-01-07 19:00:00 Then you get this sort of thing:

www.stuff.co.nz

Am I the only one who has thought that if it catches on, you won't be able to go anywhere without crowds walking around with this thing, filming you all the time?

OK, you're probably not that interesting but if you happen to be in the way of the event they capture....

And I had the nasty thought it would be a perverts dream...... 		pctek (84)
1364610 2014-01-07 21:13:00 They seem like a poor man's Google Glasses:

www.google.co.nz 		zqwerty (97)
1364611 2014-01-07 21:14:00 One of my favourite times of the year because of this annual event:

A sample:

"On the ground in the USA, it's surprising how blasé (outside EFFish
geekdom) has been the response to NSA surveillance and new maps of the
panopticon, slightly revealed by Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. It's not
that we don't want or even expect privacy. It's more like a state of
shock, the reality of growing persistent domestic surveillance is
somehow distant an unreal. It's like we're watching the Man from
U.N.C.L.E., the bad acts are bad video, some sort of fiction imposed by
deus ex Tom Clancy. We have the same response to the careful
dismantling of government and whole sections of the former middle class
- it's a film by Frank Capra, or maybe Judd Apatow. A cheesy bit of
cinema that will somehow resolve itself, credits will eventually roll,
we'll step out of the fantasy and into the light of day, and everything
will be fine, just fine. But what we're watching is not cinema, but a
maleficent YouTube video gone viral, shot by rabid weasels with an
infected Android, looping constantly like Einstein's definition of
insanity. We've dozed off watching it, fallen into nested dream states
fed by networks of fantasy, no clear way to consciousness.

Another way to see it: slammed by a firehose of information, it's hard
to know anything, to be other than intellectually numb and detached
from any sense of broad existential danger."

www.well.com
Can't help thinking, we are in the hands of the elite 1% that rule the world. 		Cicero (40)
1364612 2014-01-08 01:25:00 Can't help thinking, we are in the hands of the elite 1% that rule the world.

Cicero, you might like to watch the half hour TV play "The Man", made by Sky Arts in the UK. It's fairly relevant. 		rumpty (2863)
1364613 2014-01-08 04:34:00 Cicero, you might like to watch the half hour TV play "The Man", made by Sky Arts in the UK. It's fairly relevant.
I would consider it if I had sky. 		Cicero (40)
1364614 2014-01-08 09:14:00 I would consider it if I had sky.

I don't have Sky either. I think it was on YouTube when I saw it, some time last year. It still should be around. 		rumpty (2863)
1364615 2014-01-08 10:06:00 I don't have Sky either. I think it was on YouTube when I saw it, some time last year. It still should be around.
Found sky art, but not The Man > 		Cicero (40)
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