Regarding a discussion about pre-Westphalian history, bards, resiliency, open-source warfare, and more, I believe this summarizes my position. Note that the audience knows all the words, and are singing along. Just like they do in Athens, in Paris, in Prague, in San Francisco.
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A purely virtual rc tribe is not, and will not be, entirely useful in terms of disaster/collapse situations. This is partly for the reasons Andrew and Lance mention, but also from physical reality. Take Katrina as the example – without comms to outside, the value of the net is limited. Software developed freely and ad hoc for people locating was done rapidly, and with a minimal requirement for coordination, although the temporary creation of relief 2.0 (which I helped create and co-ordinate) allowed the software to be standardized.
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The question today is – how do you prepare for something that can wipe out an entire species when you don’t know what it is you are preparing for, you don’t know what you need to know to prepare for it, you don’t know when it’s going to happen, and you can’t possibly know either what you need to know or how to find it? You don’t know what the variables are, and you may not even know you need to prepare for it. Everybody’s been talking it about it for years, and they all have the answer, but they’re all different answers. What’s real, and what’s true? What’s the story on that?
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Note the second paragraph quoted – that’s a rational analysis. Odd we don’t see more of that here. But if we did, it wouldn’t be news, eh?
“I believe that looking after the environment will be one of the big generators of jobs in the future,” Slim said on a beach on Mexico’s Caribbean island of Cozumel at the launch of the alliance.
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Earlier I tweeted “I don’t usually tweet games but… holy cow. http://bit.ly/XBOX-E3-2009 . Idoru, anyone?”
The object of my amazement is the Milo demonstration of Natal:
He’s quite wrong when he says “science fiction writers” haven’t written about similar things, but never mind that. That this tech is running now – at a consumer product level – gives us about 2 years before this all starts for real.
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