Links for 06-06-2008
Phototerrorism – The Movie; modern news consumption patterns; a future of famine …
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“Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don’t seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? [...] Because it’s a movie-plot threat.”
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“… the report examines how users consume content in a 24/7 online world, whereby they have unlimited access to news through a huge amount of info-channels like newspapers, blogs, internet radio, videos and social media communities.”
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A very clever and funny (and as yet unrefuted) spoof jab at transhumanist critics. By a web-cartoonist, no less.
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“… there will be about 9.1 billion people living in the world in 2050. Yet they will eat as much food as 13 billion people at today’s nutritional levels. So how will we feed them all?” Cannibalism gets my vote.
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