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Nedjelja, 14 Ožujak 2010 |
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China’s Cyberposse
Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.
Foreigners in Japan say openness all talk
One way discrimination problems apparently are solved is through public apology. Earlier this year, the National Police Agency was forced to make a highly publicized official apology to the Pakistani Embassy after an internal police document was leaked that said Pakistani suspects "have a unique body odor, have skin diseases and tend to lie a lot." Perhaps the most famous official gaffe occurred in 1986 when then-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said in a speech that average intelligence in the United States is lower than in Japan because of America's "large number of blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans." Nakasone eventually apologized.
The 11th annual “Mad Scientist” Future Technology seminar summary
The blending of sciences and technologies by “combining, modifying, harnessing or adapting them in creative ways” has enabled the creation of asymmetric advantages and the ability to render existing capabilities irrelevant. This is a trend almost certain to continue and expand into the future.
5 ways your TV is slowly killing you
You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you dumber. You know there are lots of more edifying things you could be doing with your time than cheering on the contestants on "Survivor." And unless you’re working out to an exercise video, you know those hours sprawled out in front of the screen are going to make you fatter — not to mention the impact of all that junk food you’ve been tempted to scarf down during the commercial breaks. But you’ll be surprised to learn the host of other bad things TV can do to you.
TV 'link' to Alzheimer's
Watching too much television, and doing too little physical activity could be linked to Alzheimer's disease, according to US researchers. A study looked at the hobbies of a group of people with Alzheimer's, compared to a healthy group.
Tupac Shakur And The End Of The World by Sandra Mcdonald
Seems like we’re all a little culturally obsessed with impending apocalypse at the moment; a minor flurry of end-of-the-world tales a few years back has grown into an everyman’s meme, with the cinemas full of zombie hordes, desolate wastelands and rugged survivors. That ubiquity has been a bit off-putting, to be honest… I love me a good post-apocalyptic story, but I’ve become a bit bored of them, and didn’t think we’d be publishing one here at Futurismic any time soon.
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