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Creating a World Without Poverty

May 6, 2008 – 20:21

txt: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Three themes are central to this book.
The first is poverty—its causes and cure. I will show that poverty is created by economic, social, and political systems, and by false ideas—not by the laziness, ignorance, or moral failings of the poor.
The second theme is the role of women [...]

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Too Much Information? Ignore It

November 14, 2007 – 11:21

txt from: The New York Times - By ALEX WILLIAMS
“Our lives are just getting busier, the world is starting to throw more stuff at us,” he said. “Five years ago it was still pretty rare to have relatives sending you IMs. No one had Flickr feeds or Twitter. YouTube, Facebook and MySpace didn’t exist.”
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Epilogue: An Age of Optimism

April 13, 2007 – 15:43

“I am optimistic by nature. However, every technology or gift of science has a dark side. Being digital is no exception.
The next decade will see cases of intellectual-property abuse and invasion of our privacy. We will experience digital vandalism, software piracy, and data thievery. Worst of all, we will witness the loss of many jobs [...]

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Deep Remix

April 2, 2007 – 9:46

“I believe that the “media remixability” which begins around the middle of the 1990s constitutes a fundamentally new stage in the history of media. It manifests itself in different areas of culture and not only moving images - although the later does offer a particularly striking example of this new logic at work. Here software [...]

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The Machine is Us

March 23, 2007 – 15:14

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