Jim Myershttp://www.jim-myers.com/blog/Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:39:51 +0000en-USSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Stop CensorshipPoliticsTechnologyJim MyersWed, 18 Jan 2012 00:29:00 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2012/1/17/stop-censorship.html479872:5441613:14643335image

http://americancensorship.org/

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-14643335.xmlSanka, Lady Gaga, and Human-Computer Symbiosis: Tim O'Reilly and the Birth of Global ConsciousnessTechnologyThe MindJim MyersThu, 17 Nov 2011 04:57:45 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/11/17/sanka-lady-gaga-and-human-computer-symbiosis-tim-oreilly-and.html479872:5441613:13755333Tim O'Reilly touches upon challenges faced developing human-computer symbiosis.  How we choose to guide our relationship with technology will have radical effects on the quality of information that feeds the Global Brain of human understanding.

Read Tim's thoughts on the FT Magazine website.

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-13755333.xmlThe Perfect FuturePopular CultureTechnologyJim MyersThu, 06 Oct 2011 00:16:31 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/10/6/the-perfect-future.html479872:5441613:13094706Few people each generation touch the world so significantly, and singularly. A stubborn creative powerhouse, Steve Jobs insisted on reaching for a perfect future again and again, and presenting it to the world.

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-13094706.xmlVoicePopular CultureTechnologyWritingJim MyersThu, 14 Apr 2011 04:04:01 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/4/14/voice.html479872:5441613:11152001Film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, and with it the ability to speak.  Fortunately for the rest of us, the gifted writer is still able to use technology to continue to give us his words.

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-11152001.xmlHitchens’ Top TenJim MyersWed, 13 Apr 2011 01:48:14 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/4/13/hitchensrsquo-top-ten.html479872:5441613:11136042“Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form.”  Christopher Hitchens treads up the path to Mount Sinai to offer some modern suggestions on conduct.

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-11136042.xmlCIA Facebook ProjectPopular CultureTechnologyJim MyersMon, 11 Apr 2011 00:24:51 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/4/11/cia-facebook-project.html479872:5441613:11112727

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-11112727.xmlWhy I Love My 3D PrinterJim MyersSun, 10 Apr 2011 12:32:39 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/4/10/why-i-love-my-3d-printer.html479872:5441613:11107846

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-11107846.xmlSee No Evil - This American LifeGeneralJim MyersThu, 07 Apr 2011 22:25:43 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/4/8/see-no-evil.html479872:5441613:11087857
]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-11087857.xmlCracking StuxnetPoliticsScienceTechnologyJim MyersSun, 03 Apr 2011 17:34:56 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/4/3/cracking-stuxnet.html479872:5441613:11035658A brief discussion on the investigation of the origins and target of the Stuxnet computer worm.  This sophisticated and targeted code marks a new bread of “digital warhead”, an almost certainly government-created weapon.  Its implications as one of the first strikes in a new genre of warfare are chilling.

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-11035658.xmlDouglas Rushkoff: Don't Give Up on Digital LiteracyTechnologyJim MyersWed, 23 Mar 2011 02:28:47 +0000http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/2011/3/23/douglas-rushkoff-dont-give-up-on-digital-literacy.html479872:5441613:10879824Douglas Rushkoff speaks at Google during his book tour for Program or Be Programmed. He discusses the need for digital literacy for the supposed Digital Native Generation, and how technology should be engineered towards humans instead of expecting humans to bend towards zeroes and ones. Technologists should not give up on bridging the divide between developers and users.

]]>http://www.jim-myers.com/blog/rss-comments-entry-10879824.xml