Tag: Technology_Internet
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Fuck Google
Brilliant track by rapper Sole & DJ Pain 1. Giving the middle finger fits my mood, and Google are a more than worthy recipient. You can download the EP as pay what you want from Bandcamp. (via Christ.)
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Future So Bright I Gotta Wear Glasses – Project Glass
This is obviously still in the concept stage, but Google’s Project Glass they announced a few days ago isn’t a late April Fool, it’s a real product, although still in development. The possibility and also viability of the technology behind this does feel like a jetpack moment – like we are living in the future…and…
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The evolution of empathy
Jeremy Rifkind on the evolution of empathy and some amazing animation/drawing as part of RSA Animate. Thanks to Not-I for the tip. Bonus: Here’s David Harvey on Capitalism and ‘Bait and Switch’ author Barbara Ehrenreich about mandatory optimism in ‘Smile or Die’:
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You Don’t Own MP3, I’m not just one of your many toys…
One of the questions that is thrown around is ‘why do people pirate software or MP3s?’ when there are perfectly good alternatives that are legal. Well one reason might be these ‘legal’ alternatives mostly have license agreements you don’t actually OWN any of it. You rent it with a license that can be taken away…