March 2012
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Israel LOVES Iran gaining momentum.
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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Social media resolving disputes between Israel and...
In our TEDx talk, we mention that using social media to replace government would begin to happen sooner than expected and this would be more likely to lead to ‘win-win’ outcomes to any citizen choosing to use it. We mention Wikipedia as an example of Israel and Palestinian citizens using social media to effectively come to complete agreements.
In 2012, we are witnessing this process...
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TED and the CITY: A wiki to organize our cities
The Atlantic has a great overview of the winner of the 2012 TED Prize award - City 2.0. City 2.0 aims to create a large wiki to organize innovative ideas about how we can structure and administer robust and healthy growth to expand our best chance for survival, our cities.
LONG BEACH – It’s never long at the annual TED conference before attendees feel awash in mind-bending, technology-enabled...
January 2012
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Google Consciousness spreading...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the...
Someone recently put up a great Knol on Collective Intelligence, Global Brain, Human Sentient Network, etc etc etc or whatever we choose to call it.
It lays out pretty clearly the various points of view that suggest a collective intelligence system, of which humanity may play a significant, but not exclusive, role.
Read it here.
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Hackers from Europe building new internet in space
This is a novel approach to the coming SOPA ruling - a group of hackers from Germany have determined that well organized individuals now have the technology and capability of the US Space program in the 60’s. Roughly, this means that a user generated and controlled internet could easily be installed in space.
Popsci today says “The Hackerspace Global Grid was borne out of a call to...
December 2011
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Occupy protestors creating new social network
Wired magazine is running a piece about a handful of Occupy Wall Street protestors who have begun to create a new social network. Personally I believe this is more than likely to be the beginning of the first ‘digital’ governance system than many of the ‘collective’ intelligence systems are starting to emerge.
Now it’s time for activists to move beyond other people’s...
November 2011
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I am an Egyptian protestor - we are now mobilizing... →
I’m writing this post from Liberation Square, the heart and center of the Egyptian revolution.
If you dont know it already we’re rising against military ruling in the same way we have risen against Mubarak’s regime, we’ve taken our protests to the streets in main cities since the dawn of the 19th of November, I’ve been away from my home for about 28 hours now.
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Using the web to re-organize government as a meme...
In our talk “Google Consciousness”, we use the metaphor #googcon as a symbol of collective intelligence re-organizing society using nothing more complex than available social media tools such as wiki’s, Google labs and feeds such as Twitter and Facebook.
This idea appears to be picking up more and more steam, partly due to strong feelings in the Occupy Wallstreet movement....
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“Welcome to Collective Intelligence. We are the 100%.”
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REDDIT goes viral with Internet Democracy 2.0
By Rome Viharo for Google Consciousness
Back in April, when Maf Lewis and I were giving our TEDx talk on Google Consciousness - we playfully mentioned the possibilities of ‘Reddit Consciousness’ and suggested that these sorts of phenomenon would emerge to produce systems of social administration that would eventually replace government.
A few days ago on Reddit, user...
October 2011
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Birth of the global mind - Tim O'Reilly
The web is a perfect example of what engineer and early computer scientist Vannevar Bush called “intelligence augmentation” by computers, in his 1945 article “As We May Think” in The Atlantic. He described a future in which human ability to follow an associative knowledge trail would be enabled by a device he called “the memex”. This would improve on human memory in the precision of its recall....
September 2011
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TED talk: Hire the Hackers, meet Anonymous
August 2011
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July 2011
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Computer learns language by playing games →
By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision.
Cracking the Code of the Mind – Neurons Connected... →
TAU team connects neurons to computers to decipher the enigmatic code of neuronal circuits
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Google Consciousness Explained.
By Rome Viharo for Google Consciousness
Daniel Dennett’s model of consciousness in his landmark book “Consciousness Explained” deconstructs the ‘I’ experience down to ‘homunculi’ competing in the brain, each one a bit more stupid than the next until you get a ‘neuron’. That neuron he likens to a machine - but only in the sense that he wishes...
Scientific American: A contest to determine...
The authors define consciousness here as an ability to understand whether a photograph depicts an image that makes sense based on knowledge of the world that most people share—general knowledge that no present-day computer is capable of storing and processing in the way people do. A person, for instance, knows that a keyboard belongs in front of a computer screen, whereas a potted plant in that...
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Belarus Blocks Twitter, Facebook On Holiday →
MINSK, Belarus — The authoritarian government of Belarus blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and a major Russian social networking site Sunday in an attempt to prevent opposition protests on a national holiday. Thousands of police and special forces were deployed in the center of Minsk, the capital.
The respected rights group Vesna said the government also detained dozens of opposition...
June 2011
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Anonymous launches 'wikileaks' for hackers
Instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start the leaks flowing. Earlier this week members of the hacker collective, and specifically a sub-group known as the People’s Liberation Front, (PLF) launched two new leaking sites, LocalLeaks.tk (not to be confused with the similarly named Localeaks.com) and HackerLeaks.tk....
Computer Scientists Induce Schizophrenia in a...
Researchers testing mental illness figured out how to induce schizophrenic symptoms in a computer, causing it to place itself at the center of crazy delusions, such as claiming responsibility for a terrorist bombing. The results bolster a hypothesis that claims faulty information processing can lead to schizophrenic symptoms.
Read more at Popsci
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#Antisec Preps For DDOS Attack On Israel...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/27/2011 14:09 -0400
The latest target of Operation Anonymous, which following the dissolution of LulzSec is the last substantial non-amorphous hacker collective left out there, could lead to some substantial geopolitical fallout. That is because the target of the just announced upcoming DDOS attack is none other than the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset,...
Rumors of LuzSec's Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
Lulzsec has more curveballs than Nolan Ryan. From a report today on infosec island
quoted from lulzsec
Server: irc.anonops.li Channel: #antisecpro
This Channel is invite only so if you want to ask questions please /msg antisecpro If you are thinking of being a member or helper of our team please understand that this isn’t going to be some kind of immediate start hacking group.
Currently...
Anonymous and LulzSec’s Existence Scares ISP into...
LulzSec has certainly had an effect on many around the world. Love them or hate them, it’s next to impossible to deny that they have caught the attention of many. That includes Australian ISP Telstra. According to reports surfacing, they planned on rolling out their web censorship plan, but are now hesitant on implementing their web censorship plan fearing reprisals from hacking groups such as...
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Lulzsec says goodbye, claims to disband
Their statement:
Friends around the globe,
We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
For the past 50 days...
Why Lulzsec and Revolution 2.0 may be here to stay
These “daughter groups” seem based on their region , on twitter I have seen “lulzsec” based groups for brazil and there have been reports of graffiti tags showing the word “antisec” and lulzsec’s mascot image in San Diego, I do not know how many other groups such as this are out there, but considering lulzsec’s over 200,000 twitter followers the number could be significant.
Considering law...
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Lulzsec and Anonymous Declare Open War Against All... →
Rome Viharo’s blog picks up the story from Gizmodo - the social media revolution that is tearing down the old ways of doing things, which is mentioned in the talk “Google Consciousness”, has reared it’s head up. Is a new social media democracy not far behind?
romeviharo:
The social media revolution which is bent on tearing down old structures has just upped the ante a...
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Egyptians most sensible nation to create Social... →
’Google Consciousness’ as a metaphor for recreating social administration through social media is, as the talk mentions, more likely to happen and succeed than most people are aware of.
The irony of history has it. The cradle of civilization which has for the first time in 3000 years overthrown it’s leadership has the historic responsibility to create a bright and effecient...
Google Consciousness #1 Most Popular on TED.com
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/pages/popular
WatchTED.com picks up GOOGLE CONSCIOUSNESS, presented at TEDxCardiff, Wales April 9th, 2011.
May 2011
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New Media Social: Wael Ghonim - Rebuilding... →
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by rome viharo for media social
“My view is that the people of this most ancient civilization truly deserve a most modern of democracies.” Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
Social Media has the potential not just for Wael Ghonim’s Revolution 2.0 as witnessed in the events in Egypt,…
Media Social: Presenting Google Consciousness at... →
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By Rome Viharo for Media Social
On Saturday, April 9th Maf Lewis and I were thrilled to present “Google Consciousness” at TEDxCardiff along a line up of quite inspiring and thought provoking speakers.
The talk spanned the story and genesis of how the ‘meme’ Google Consciousness is…