Abbey Road, Beatles e turistas da memória

Flores (para ti)

71% da terra

Sessão da tarde: The Mother of All Demos (Douglas Engelbart,1968)

Privacidade em 1862, em 1970 e agora

Is Privacy Dead? (1970)

Lincoln’s Surveillance State: In 1862, after President Abraham Lincoln appointed him secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton penned a letter to the president requesting sweeping powers, which would include total control of the telegraph lines. By rerouting those lines through his office, Stanton would keep tabs on vast amounts of communication, journalistic, governmental and personal.

Would We Be Better Off Without the Internet? We can't "repeal the Internet." But it's killing our privacy, destroying journalism, and unleashing "conflict and mayhem."

8 Simple Online Privacy Tips Everyone Needs To Know

Why You Can't Keep a Secret

Nevoeiro em São Francisco

Como executar um golpe de Estado, 45 anos depois

How To Execute A Coup, In One Chart: Given the events in Egypt today, we thank FT's Joseph Cotterill for posting this chart on how to execute a coup.

It comes from the famous Edward Luttwak book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, which was written in 1968.

The chart shows the three teams that you need in place, and the targets they need to penetrate (residence, TV stations, etc.). This then concludes in domination of key traffic locations.

Video-artes

via 50 Great Works of Video Art That You Can Watch Online

De velha a nova garrafa

A sociedade "always-on"

The always-on, simultaneous society in which we have found ourselves has altered our relationship to culture, media, news, politics, economics, and power. We are living in a digital temporal landscape, but instead of exploiting its asynchronous biases, we are misguidedly attempting to extend the time-is-money agenda of the Industrial Age into the current era. The result is a disorienting and dehumanizing mess, where the zombie apocalypse is more comforting to imagine than more of the same. It needn't be this way. Douglas Rushkoff -- teacher, documentarian, journalist, and author -- discusses insights from his recent book "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now" with David Weinberger and a live audience at Harvard.