Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
And Now… Unsourcing
June 6th, 201275.2 million people are on Facebook, pretending to grow vegetables and raise animals in their browser windows? … Has it really come to this? Getting ribbons for bragging rights in Facebook games? —The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Via: The Economist: Some of the biggest brands in software, consumer electronics and telecoms have now […]
Australia: Blaming Price Increases on Carbon Tax Could Result in Million Dollar Fine for Businesses
June 4th, 2012Via: The Telegraph: SHOPS and restaurants could face fines up to $1.1 million if waiters or sales staff wrongly blame the carbon tax for price rises or exaggerate the impact. … ACCC deputy chairman Dr Michael Schaper told the Herald Sun companies were entitled to increase their prices and did not have to justify or […]
School Districts Taking More Corporate Advertising
June 4th, 2012This USA Today piece contains easily the most ridiculous lie I’ve read in a long time. “The public isn’t paying for public education anymore.” Oh really? This infographic is from USC: U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World: Via: MAT@USC | Master’s of Arts in Teaching Americans are paying more money for public education […]
‘The Last Days of Cash’
May 31st, 2012IEEE: A Special Report on the Future of Money – The Last Days of Cash – How E-Money Technology is Plugging Us into the Digital Economy
Hong Kong: Skyscraper City
May 28th, 2012Must see. Via: Kotaku: To say Hong Kong is crowded is an understatement. Over seven million people are squeezed into just 1,108 square kilometers. And boy, in some places it’s a tight squeeze.
Texas: Students Will Be Tracked Via Chips in IDs
May 25th, 2012Via: My San Antonio: Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students. District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) […]
And Now… Software Will Allow a Single Professor to Deliver, ‘Meaningful Education to Hundreds of Thousands of Students at Once’
May 23rd, 2012In ten or twenty years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the majority of paid work in companies, that is, work that isn’t done by machines, being done by these “certificate” holders. They’ll live in ever expanding slums, autonomously policed by RoboCops and drones. They’ll have fast Internet and there will be Superbowl commercials about […]
More Facebook IPO Antics
May 23rd, 2012“There is often VERY strong voodoo at work…” —Facebook IPO I don’t want to bore people with too many posts about this, but the stories are getting pretty interesting for being only a few days out from the IPO. Here’s The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO: The analysts cut their estimates […]
The Future of Sustainable Agriculture at Disney EPCOT: GMO and Styrofoam
May 21st, 2012Sponsors of “Living With The Land” at Disney EPCOT: Kraft: The Sierra Club has launched a campaign against genetically engineered foods. We’re targeting Kraft Foods, which is the largest packaged food producer in America. We’re asking Kraft to remove all genetically engineered products from their foods. This includes not using milk from rBGH-treated cows (the […]
Half of Florida High School Students Fail Reading Test
May 19th, 2012Via: Reuters: Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state’s new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday. Results this year from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed 52 percent of freshman students and 50 percent of sophomores scored at their grade levels. Students in the 10th grade […]
