This article from Digital Trends describes how the “father of the internet”, Tim Berners-Lee, is trying to “de-centralize” the world-wide web, that is, take power back from a handful of companies who basically dominate huge portions of web activity and expropriate user’s personal data for their own private profits. This is the essence of “antidisambiguation,” a word […]
Archives for August 2016
Orwell Never Dreamed of This
Just a quick sampling of some of the more invasive apparatuses of repression out there… FBI and US Marshals stock up on radar which can see through walls. The product known as Range-R can detect movement — even breathing — through one-foot thick concrete and takes only seconds to scan a house. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/fbi-us-marshals-range-r- Here is […]
UK Copyright Extension Direct Assault on 3D Printing
Here’s another example of the fight taking shape between the old capitalist class and the emerging potentials of new technologies. Just a reminder: These are the days when the the old relations of production become fetters on the new productive forces. In order for these forces to fully develop, the fetters must burst. From […]