Google I/O Crisis Response tech (VIDEO)

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This hour long lecture from earlier this year is filled with varying values of Interesting.

More generally you have the Benevolent aspect of an…

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TED Talk: Maajid Nawaz on “A global culture to fight extremism”

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Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist…

TED Talk: Maajid Nawaz on “A global culture to fight extremism”

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Rebecca MacKinnon’s call for a ‘Magna Carta’ for the Internet

From NYT, A Call To Take Back The Internet from Corporations:

“The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern,” said Ms. MacKinnon, whose book, ”Consent of…

Rebecca MacKinnon’s call for a ‘Magna Carta’ for the Internet

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How the network is bringing down the Murdoch Empire and rocking the status quo

This. This is what is happening in the UK right now. Radical destabilisation of the existing order, the status quo, through the pure power of the truth.

Murdoch: the network defeats the…

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PBS piece on advances in prosthetics

Great overview on Better Living Through Upgrades:

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Cilium – robotic recreation of microscopic hairs

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Cilium – robotic recreation of microscopic hairs

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