Stahlman's is a pretty good critique of Eric Schmidt's and Jared Cohen's "The New Digital Age," which features exemplar Internet successes, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. And blurbed enthusiastically in advance by Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, General Michael Hayden, Madeleine Albright, Walter Isaacson, Robert B. Zoellick, Michael Bloomberg, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Branson, et al. http://newdigitalage.com/a/praise.htmlhttp://newdigitalage.com/a/praise.html It envisions the entire earth hynptized by cellphones and personal media, overturning tyrants, advancing democracy, swarming public discourse, and caring not at all about tech-wealth accumulation and bountiful cooperation with global spy agencies. "If you have nothing to hide, forget about privacy." Enjoy the toys. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5