Need To Try This Out On The Tablet Lol

It’s all about the editor

Amazing video, this guy has serious editing skills!

Talk about timing...

It's amazing that it's been a year since Glen met with Snowden and the NSA landed in the headlines for violating our 4th amendment rights to privacy, a cornerstone of democracy.

Last week the USA Freedom Act passed in the house- doublespeak from our government that allows this abuse to continue. This week Snowden gave his first American Network TV interview.

Why does this issue of privacy and democracy matter so much? After all, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide"?

----- excerpt from The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier-----

"Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.

Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

and

"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."

For the link to a short collection of other related articles, visit http://americanvirtueproject.wikispaces.com/readinglist

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Democracy

Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media

The 15 Warning Signs of Impending Tyranny

via Robert Reich

5 Principles of True Patriotism:

http://io9.com/watch-classical-paintings-come-alive-in-beauty-1503708585

Creepy and beautiful

Questions no one knows the answers to - Chris Anderson

In the first of a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosity, TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with quirky questions that seem to have no answers.

Reading list

Don’t read all in one sitting... I’m working on an updated on an updated version of the Information Age timeline and also ruminating on themes running through these articles.   

Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

The end of capitalism has begun

Creativity, Technology/Robots/Jobs, Futurism

Links discussed/related to a couple of conversations this week about the purpose of education and what is your purpose in life....

Creativity....

Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) [52:10]

A couple of clips from this excellent video, an hour well spent…   Big questions and Curiosity Science, Politics, and Skepticism Creativity

Is Stifling Creativity in the Classroom Preventing Future Problem Solvers?

Excerpts:                        "Dr. Mae C. Jemison, an American physician and NASA astronaut, correctly noted that the “majority of scientists say they developed their passion for science by age 11. That means that the educational experience children have in grade school profoundly impacts our nation’s ability to graduate a prepared STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] work force.”"

                 "Look at any truly stunning innovation and you’ll find creativity at play. Inspiring our students to think creatively while being trained in a specific discipline is vital for our country’s growth and development. But here is the sobering reality: according to researchers, scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (the standard test used to measure creativity, akin to IQ tests for measuring intelligence) have been declining in the U.S. during the past two decades, with the most significant decline among kindergartners through sixth graders. This leads to a fundamental question: Is our education system stifling creativity in today’s children, preventing them from becoming the world’s future creative problem solvers?

  Some argue that the decline in creativity may be caused by excess media consumption, because students are spending countless hours interacting with smart phones, video games and television. Others may argue standardized testing or other root causes. However, a fundamental fact remains: most children spend the majority of their day in a highly structure, perhaps overly ridged learning environment. How are we supporting teachers and equipping classrooms in the battle to preserve the child’s inherent and natural curiosity?" MORE LINKS 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently TED Playlist: Where do ideas come from IN THE AIR New Yorker (Gladwell)

Technology, robots, and jobs...

10 Rad Jobs of the Future Infographic

Will Technology Make Work Better for Everyone? Slate

Here Comes The Future Of Education. Are We Ready?  Mitch Joel  Robots Are Already Replacing Us Wired (I like page 11) Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs Kevin Kelly, Wired              Excerpts:               "Robots create jobs that we did not even know we wanted done."                 "When robots and automation do our most basic work, making it relatively easy for us to be fed, clothed, and sheltered, then we are free to ask, “What are humans for?” Industrialization did more than just extend the average human lifespan. It led a greater percentage of the population to decide that humans were meant to be ballerinas, full-time musicians, mathematicians, athletes, fashion designers, yoga masters, fan-fiction authors, and folks with one-of-a kind titles on their business cards. With the help of our machines, we could take up these roles; but of course, over time, the machines will do these as well. We’ll then be empowered to dream up yet more answers to the question “What should we do?” It will be many generations before a robot can answer that." (also see Kevin Kelly's TED talk:  The next 5,000 days of the web?)

  The long view... 

Have you seen Jason Silva's latest 'Shots of Awe' video?  JASON SILVA’S LATEST: TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE TRANSHUMAN

The next species of human Juan Enriquez TED Talk I'm planning to give a talk on transhumanism  (more than just Kurzweil's ideas on the singularity) next semester....   

The Power of Play