"If we can not sustain today’s system, then what type of socioeconomic system can we sustain? NET proposes an alternative system for a hi-tech sustainable socioeconomic system which we call a "technate". "
"The Book and Discussion Forum for Networked Activists"; the book was Edited by Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe. but the discussion in the forum, which started 2004, seems to have died last year. The book contains "Emergent Democracy" by Joi Ito. ;
"Emeka Okafor is an entrepreneur and venture catalyst who lives in New York City.He was the director for TED Global 2007 that took place in Arusha, Tanzania and is the TED Africa Director. His interests include sustainable technologies in the developing w
Elaine Supkis on EATR: ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT. This is a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project (DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292a). Supkis blog-entry is based on a presentation of the project made 9 April, 2009, by
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld: "Thanks to Windows' security weaknesses, botnets are now commonplace and we can only expect to see more DDoS attacks in the future." Botnets.
En utskrift från Expressens nätupplaga, Expressen.se . Ledare av Johanna Nylander 7august 2009. "Offentlighetsprincipen kommer inte att hålla sig vid liv, om den inte får bli digital... För det krävs både öppna standarder och öppen kod"
"The ICIE was created in 1999 by Rafael Capurro. It started as a small group of friends and colleagues but developed soon into an international and intercultural platform with by now 280 members from all over the world. In 2001 a cooperation agreement wa
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
Under början av året har Sitra i samarbete med över tjugo städer, kommuner, samkommuner, Kommunförbundet och staten utarbetat affärsplanerna för två servicecenter. De riksomfattande servicecentren inrättas i syfte att tillhandahålla service för dataadmini
Förvaltnings- och kommunminister Mari Kiviniemi tillsatte den 14 april 2009 Programmet för att påskynda elektronisk ärendehantering och demokrati (SADe-programmet). Målet är att främja elektronisk ärendehantering inom den offentliga förvaltningen så att d
Copenhagen, December 10, 2009 – Over 160 civil society groups, including social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), today released a joint declaration on technology: “Let's Look Before We Leap!”. The declaration alerts governments to the
En kinesisk solskenshistoria. Thursday, October 12, 2006 By Andrew Batson in Wuxi, China, The Wall Street Journal. "When he arrived in Australia 18 years ago as a physics student, Shi Zhengrong scraped by on a meager stipend from the Chinese government t
Intentional, large-scale manipulation of the environment by humans to bring about environmental change, particularly to counteract the undesired side effects of other human activities. - Retooling the Planet: New ETC Group Report on Geoengineering
Diana Bronson: "...we still believe that there should be an exclusion for geoengineering technologies, for any of the enhancement measures that are now envisaged under this new technology body, and that there should be means of assessment and also of prec
Laura Lähdevuori 30.9.2010. Energia- ja ympäristöalan strategisen osaamisen keskittymä (Shok) Cleen Oy käynnistää smart grid -sähköverkkoihin liittyvän viisivuotisen tutkimusohjelman, jonka laajuus on noin 35 miljoonaa euroa. Tutkimusohjelman pitäisi tuo
Terrapower. 13 February 2010. "Today we are always refueling the reactor so lot of controls and lots of things that can go wrong," Gates said. "That is not good. With this, you have a piece of fuel, think of it like a log, that burns for 60 years and it
Yhdysvalloissa on esitelty keksintö, joka voisi mullistaa jopa koko maailman energiantuotantoa. Bloom Energy -yhtiö on esitellyt polttokennoon perustuvan laitteen, joka tuottaa edullisesti vihreää energiaa. Ensimmäinen asiakas on, kukapa muukaan kuin Goog
I often find myself quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald when I write about conspiracy theory, who said that "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." It's an ability that no explorer of the oute
NWC is a group of academics, researchers and media professionals that enquire effects of the new kinds of war technologies. The group was born in the third quarter of 2006 after Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Monsanton porsaspatenttihakemus jätettiin Maailman henkisen omaisuuden järjestölle WIPO:lle Genevessä helmikuussa 2006. Yritys hakee patenttioikeuksia porsaankasvatukselle yli 160 maassa. Jos patentti myönnetään, Monsanto voi jatkossa estää kasvattajia j
"The Boeing X-37 (Advanced Technology Demonstrator) is an American unpiloted spaceplane operated by the U.S. Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions. It is a reusable robotic spacecraft that is a 120 percent–scaled derivative of the X-40A." Also htt
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-- Nikkei Electronics Asia --May 2010 "Brand-new e-book readers like the Reader Daily Edition from Sony and the nook from Barnes & Noble differentiate themselves from Amazon.coms Kindle series through operability and the user interface."
| Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/26/2010 "I would use my Kindle at the beach or the pool and my iPad in bed or on an airplane," says Doug Alexander, who has been a digital reader since the release of the first-generation Kindle in 2007. What he doesn't like a
David Dickson editorial 6 May 2009 : "Nowhere is the promise of nanotechnology stronger than in water treatment. Nanofiltration techniques and nanoparticles can reduce or eliminate contaminants in water and could help deliver a key Millennium Development
The Bhopal mega-crime trial is over. The barbarity has ended in a light sentence, although the victims are countless. Eight officials of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Limited have been convicted and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment. The j
Digital Accessible Information System, or DAISY, is a means of creating digital talking books for people who wish to hear—and navigate—written material presented in an audible format; many such listeners have "print disabilities," including blindness, imp
"Intentionally changing climate is a way of exerting power on a global scale in a context in which relevant norms, conventions, and treaties barely exist, are highly ineffectual, or very controversial. Yet the people of the world will have their say about
Prinzipiell befürwortet Greenpeace Energy auch hocheffiziente Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungs-Anlagen (KWK), die Erdgas nutzen. Die Energiewende weg von Kohle und Atom funktioniert nur, wenn Gas-KWK die Lücke schließt, bis die Erneuerbaren die Versorgung vollständi
Firoze Manji and Molly Kane 2010-10-07, Issue 499 : "The technologies, or more precisely corporate control of the new technologies, represents a potential and growing threat to the continent. A continent that has already faced a turbulent history of colo
Pat Mooney's speech 2003 (30th anniversary of Schumacher's book). the issue here is not simply to look at nanotechnology. What I would invite ITDGPractical Action to consider is that we need to get ahead and analyse what has to be done for us to manage t
19.10.2010: Suomi panostaa tieto- ja viestintäteknologiayhteistyöhön- Etelä-Afrikka, 3 yhteistyöohjelmaa 10 m € (vrt EU-komissio 30 m €)- alueellinen yhteistyö eteläisessä Afrikassa 10 m € - alkavia ohjelmia Tansaniassa ja Mosambikissa- koko Afrikka n 60
"You will meet us at more than 700 municipalities in the Nordic countries and at 70 public libraries in the UK" "We continue to research and develop chip technology, smart mobile agents and E-books together with our international partners." "Axiell Librar
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
After 225 days in orbit the Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane touched down Friday at 1:16 a.m. local time at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was only the second fully automated re-entry and runway landing in the history of space flight.
Av Anders Lotsson, Computer Sweden, 19.12.2010. " Den goda nyheten är att det kanske inte är så svårt att bygga en kvantdator som vi trodde. Den dåliga nyheten är att kvantdatorer gör all kryptering på internet oduglig" "Det blir konstigare och konstigar
n The Net Delusion, by Evgeny Morozov, we finally have a long-overdue market correction to cyber-utopianism, which Morozov defines as “a naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to acknowledge its do
The largest wind farm operator in Japan, Eurus Energy with about 22% of all wind turbines in Japan, is a subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO) which operates the Fukushima nuclear facility. Right now, it is likely the company is very happy about it
Summarizes, albeit indirectly, the ideology of the nuclear renaissance. Updated in March 2011. Provides overview and links: "There are already examples of the globalization of the nuclear industry. At the commercial level, by the end of 2006 three major
Cogeneration can achieve better CO2 reductions than the Bloom Energy fuel cell when operating on the same type of fuel. "Spitzka concedes that while the application of the Bloom unit can provide benefits to facilities where the use of thermal energy (hot
Warden and Allan point out that the file is moved onto new devices when an old one is replaced: "Apple might have new features in mind that require a history of your location, but that's our specualtion. The fact that [the file] is transferred across [to
Storylab b – the Tacoma Public Library’s new digital media center for teens. “This really speaks to the way libraries are changing,” said Susan Odencrantz, the city’s library director. “More and more, there’s a movement toward digital literacy and upload