As my last post documented there is a plague on the internet that is having a negative affect on civilization as a whole. Facebook is the leading cause of this plague, and despite many opportunities, has completely failed to do anything about it. Pretty much every open group has been taken over by trolls and spam and it is impossible
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 6 (read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) My last post was on happiness, this is the exact opposite. As you all know by now the US has elected a ultra right wing dictator wannabe who the only hope he gives to continued freedom in this country is that
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 5 (read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) Between national news and recent personal experiences, I believe we are on the verge of one or more technical apocalypse. This could come two possible forms: Either, technology advances to the point that it bypasses the need for humanity, or we grow more
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UPDATE: In support of the July 12th Battle For The Net, I am rerunning this post from 3 years ago to remind people what Net Neutrality is really all about. For more info on the protest, go here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/ To write the FCC: https://dearfcc.org/ I am completely baffled at the conservatives here in America’s ability to get the Net Neutrality
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It was not that long ago that people did not think the internet mattered to the economy as a whole. Now it seems the internet IS the economy. This has created a lot of interest in trying to control the internet from multiple different directions. These attempts to control that which is at this stage uncontrollable now threaten the internet
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One of the things I have on my website is a list of 3D Virtual Worlds that I try to maintain. Although I don’t play them much anymore, I have a few reliable sources I go to keep me up to date. It has been about two years since I added a new program, and that program was Cloud Party.
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream (part 4) This is the 4th in a series about the affect of Internet on society. Part 1 was the new mass media, part 2 the new politics and religion, part 3 movies and TV. Today’s topic: social instability brought on by technology. Andrew Niccol is a screenwriter/director who often makes films with the
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 3) In part 1, I complained how the internet has ruined culture, and in part 2 how it is ruining politics and religion. Today I delve into an area that is a little more personal: movies and TV. 1999: The Year That Didn’t Change Movies 1999, is a year I consider the year
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 2) Something I almost never do in this blog is talk about politics and religion, and I am only going to talk about it in the most generic terms here. My thesis for today is that the wealth of information available through the internet is having unexpected consequences on what should be the
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 1) As a long time internet addict, who has spent 20 years online, and 15 years working in the internet industry, I hate to say it, but it is true: I am bored of the Internet. The thing is, I am quite certain I am not alone in this sentiment. Over the course
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