“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul.” – Ingrid Bergman, actor Anyone who has ever been moved to tears, laughter, anger or amazement by a movie will know what Bergman meant in that famous quote. Anyone who has ever […]
Internet Voting is Central to Direct Democracy
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font face="Times"></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times">As municipalities and telecommunications providers partner on WiFi and WiMax infrastructures – and as debate still rages along the many ridges of the digital divide – the promise this broader web access can bring to the public with respect to […]
Verizon Wireless Pulls Plug on BlackBerry 8830 Features – Rips off Customers
Verizon Wireless, a long time heavyweight in wireless communications, has been disabling the GPS feature on the BlackBerry 8830 handsets it sells, after advertising the feature as one of the device’s selling points. In fact the Blackberry 8830 comes equipped with a fully functional gps locator and tracking system but Verizon Wireless their customers to […]
The End of FUD Revisited
Recent actions by Microsoft prompted us to re-issue this position paper and add a section on intellectual property. This position paper will address the question, “Can the open source approach to software development promote transparency and remove FUD — fear, uncertainty and doubt?” By requiring that source code is freely available to all, the open […]
Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 websites (meetup, craigslist, youtube, flickr, del.icio.us …), they are all built by the user. It […]
Against Compulsory Schooling: from mass production to empowering individuals
Modern compulsory schooling is a product of mass production. It is to produce labors for the mass production. When people learned to unleashing the power from the coal and later oil, we entered a new era of human history, the age of machine or the age of mass production. For a moment, please put […]