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"In fact, the relationship between old and new is a complicated one, because beneath the abandoned railroad bed from the nineteenth centtury lies fiber-optic cable." S.1

"[...]new and old medias are layered on top of each other, just as the railroad track is layered with fiber-optic conduit." S.2

"even as digital networks seem to annihilate or deterritorialize physical space, space seems to continually reappear, often as an unwanted flaw in the system." S.3/4

"If the cloud represents a new reconfiguration between place and placelessness, it is clear that relationship directly affects the organization of contemporary power." S. 4

"On a logical level, we see communication patterns tht may resemble a distributed network--although the fact that cloud computing concentrates our files into the data centers of a few underlying service providers, such as Google and Amazon Web Services, complicates this theory." S. 7

"Urban planners responded to the atomic threeat by dispersing industrial targets away from urban centers; and in this dispersion also seems to influence an entirely new invention: the network as internet." S. 9

"[...]the network is always more than its digital or physical infrastructure. The network is primarily the idea that "everything is connected", and, as such, is a product of a system of belief. [...] reality can never match up to that system of belief, because, in fact, not everthing is connected, the network exists primarily as a state of desire." S. 10

"Network fever is the desire to connect all networks" S.11

"[...]the technological network came into being, simultaneously with another kind of network--network understood as conspiracy." S. 13

"Conspiracy, by definition, is concerned with systems; it connects seemingly unrelated pieces of information, weaving them into systems." S. 13

"[...] as part of the network is "very nebulous", echoing the word's Latin origin nebule, cloud: a cloudlike vision that is simultaneously vague and also universal." S. 16

"Paranoia, by definition, contains both radical connectivity and radical disconnection." S. 20

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We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cybers- pace.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are based on matter, There is no matter here.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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Leider etwas utopisch da es schon alleine ein Privileg ist Zugang zum Internet zu haben und ein Device zu bezitzen. S.B.

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We are creating a world that all may enter without pri- vilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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It attempts to place more restrictive constraints on the conversation in Cyberspace than presently exist in the Senate cafeteria

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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After all, the Telecom “Reform” Act, passed in the Se- nate with only 5 dissenting votes, makes it unlawful, and punishable by a $250,000 to say “shit” online.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - John P. Barlow

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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— Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

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all dot-com, dot-net, and dot-org

domain names are subject to US

jurisdiction regardless of where they

operate or where they were registered. This

grants the US a form of Òsuper-jurisdictionÓ

over internet activities since most other

countries are limited to jurisdiction with a

real and substantial connection.

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Microsoft was the first cloud company to publicly

confirm Patriot Act access to its data stored

outside the US.14 In August 2011, Google also

confirmed that its data stored overseas is

subject to "lawful access by the US government."
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"I don't think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It startswith the premise that the data services andarchitecture should be on servers."

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"I don't think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It startswith the premise that the data services andarchitecture should be on servers."

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"The internet can be compared to a patchwork of city-states, or an archipelago of islands."

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"The internet can be compared to a patchwork of city-states, or an archipelago of islands."

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The Marvelous Clouds - John Durham Peters

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The Marvelous Clouds - John Durham Peters

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""Kairos rivals logos as one of the richest wrds in ancient Greek, with applications in medicine, warfare, archery, ethics, aesthetics, and rhetoric. It is often translated as window of opportunity or good timing, but another rendering puts it directly into the context of sky media - as weather. [...] Events in the ski - meteora in Greek, whence meteorology - are always temporal."

"Disasters - a term that means "bad star" - happen in the sky first."

"Speaking with Heidegger, weather was once Götterschau, the theater of the gods."

"Enlighteners first take aim at the sky."

"The weather is still one of our most ready lexicons for the mystery of blessing and bane."

"Weather is an interesting object for media studies because it seems, on the one hand, to be immune to any human fashioning, and yet on the other is one of the most heavily constructed objetcs we know - constructed by talk, measuring instruments, journalism, and now geoengineering, the possibility of direct and aggressive alteration of atmospheric chemistry."

"[...] Nothing ages so fast as a weather report."

"Benjamin says a new "epidemic of boredome" broke out in 1840 Paris when routine weather was invented as a topic of talk; weather and boredome, he thought, have a deep, inner connection. [...] The weather has "the capacity to be both tremendously mundane and spectacularly dramatic."

"The telegraph enabled people to think of weather as a widespread and connected affair, rather than an assortment of local surprises."

"There is no enterprise so data-hungry as meteorology."

"Weather forecasting was arguably the first world wide web, Edwards argues: a global network for the exchange of data, not only in creating a genuinely global project, but also in terms of computer technology. Next to simulating nuclear explosions, meteorology is the most important motive in the rise of supercomputing."

"Without satellites and computers there is no global weather, but without the need for global weather, we might not have the satellites or computers we do."

"A deeper understanding of weather has invented entire professions in the twentieth century and deeply changed the ways that we conceive and manage danger; not only seacraft and aircraft, but risk itself became modernized. And of course war was one of the most important pushes. Weather forecasting was another "abuse of military equipment".

"Clouds are often thought of as the thing par excellence without inherent meaning."

"People can stimulate clouds by seeding them, and it is against international law to use clouds [...] in warfare."

"They are neither icon, index, nor symbol. Gloriously, clouds pose the problem of the unrepresentable."

icon: viselle Ähnlichkeit
index: Kausale Verbindung zw. Objekt und Representation
z.b Rauch - Feuer
Symbol: steht stellvertretend für was anderes, ohne direkten Link

"This is some kind of crucial historical mutation: not only is it legitimate to look for images in the clouds, but it has become urgent. Our survival may depend on knowing how to read the signs in the atmosphere."

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A new run of the CLOUD experiment examines the direct effect of cosmic rays on clouds

The CLOUD experiment in the CERN East Hall at the start of the CLOUDy run, on 23 September 2019. The chamber is enclosed inside a thermal housing that precisely controls the temperature between -65 °C and +40 °C. Instruments surrounding the chamber continuously sample and analyse its contents. (Image: CERN)

CERN's colossal complex of accelerators is in the midst of a two-year shutdown for upgrade work. But that doesn't mean all experiments at the Laboratory have ceased to operate. The CLOUD experiment, for example, has just started a data run that will last until the end of November.

The CLOUD experiment studies how ions produced by high-energy particles called cosmic rays affect aerosol particles, clouds and the climate. It uses a special cloud chamber and a beam of particles from the Proton Synchrotron to provide an artificial source of cosmic rays. For this run, however, the cosmic rays are instead natural high-energy particles from cosmic objects such as exploding stars.

"Cosmic rays, whether natural or artificial, leave a trail of ions in the chamber," explains CLOUD spokesperson Jasper Kirkby, "but the Proton Synchrotron provides cosmic rays that can be adjusted over the full range of ionisation rates occurring in the troposphere, which comprises the lowest ten kilometres of the atmosphere. That said, we can also make progress with the steady flux of natural cosmic rays that make it into our chamber, and this is what we're doing now."

In its 10 years of operation, CLOUD has made several important discoveries on the vapours that form aerosol particles in the atmosphere and can seed clouds. Although most aerosol particle formation requires sulphuric acid, CLOUD has shown that aerosols can form purely from biogenic vapours emitted by trees, and that their formation rate is enhanced by cosmic rays by up to a factor 100.

Most of CLOUD's data runs are aerosol runs, in which aerosols form and grow inside the chamber under simulated conditions of sunlight and cosmic-ray ionisation. The run that has just started is of the "CLOUDy" type, which studies the ice- and liquid-cloud-seeding properties of various aerosol species grown in the chamber, and direct effects of cosmic-ray ionisation on clouds.

The present run uses the most comprehensive array of instruments ever assembled for CLOUDy experiments, including several instruments dedicated to measuring the ice- and liquid-cloud-seeding properties of aerosols over the full range of tropospheric temperatures. In addition, the CERN CLOUD team has built a novel generator of electrically charged cloud seeds to investigate the effects of charged aerosols on cloud formation and dynamics.

"Direct effects of cosmic-ray ionisation on the formation of fair-weather clouds are highly speculative and almost completely unexplored experimentally," says Kirkby. "So this run could be the most boring we've ever done - or the most exciting! We won't know until we try, but by the end of the CLOUD experiment, we want to be able to answer definitively whether cosmic rays affect clouds and the climate, and not leave any stone unturned."

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CERN's colossal complex of accelerators is in the midst of a two-year shutdown for upgrade work. But that doesn't mean all experiments at the Laboratory have ceased to operate. The CLOUD experiment, for example, has just started a data run that will last until the end of November.

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NEW YORK -- A panel on social innovation and social change started with a joke. A panelist said they should go the full hour without saying the word "Twitter."

But Twitter, along with Facebook, were unavoidable terms that came up repeatedly in the discussion Thursday at an Advertising Week event at 300 Madison Avenue in New York City.

The talk started with the Egypt revolution and inevitably turned to Occupy Wall Street, an ongoing event just a few miles away in Lower Manhattan. More than 450,000 Facebook users have joined Occupy Wall Street pages to date (scroll down for graph); Twitter chatter has surged. The big question: Does social innovation equal social change?

"These tools are actually not that complicated," Change.org founder Ben Rattray said, downplaying the "innovation" part of the technology. "Social change is less about the tools and more about the applications of those tools."

Rattray added that social media is used for "supporting, not supplanting, existing strategies," though at the same time it can absolutely "spark something that wouldn't exist," he said.

Jeremy Heimans, co-founder and CEO of Purpose, agreed: "It's not as much about the tools. It's about smart people using the best tools they can to bring people together."

That said, there is a strong irony in technology, according to Rattray.

"The best way to get people away from their computer is through the computer; you can't organize thousands of people in New York City [the way Occupy Wall Street has] without the web," he said.

These simple tools like Facebook and Twitter -- through passionate individuals -- build networks of individuals and take action to the streets. It happened in Egypt and it's happening in New York, the panelists said. Whether it's the beginning of actual change is debatable, but it's absolutely amplifying these efforts for change.

Though as people get all excited about social tools on the web, it's important not to lose sight of something else that's fueling the recent New York protests, Heimans noted.

"Occupy Wall Street shows the power still of mainstream media," he said. "In activist terms, a very small number of people started that. The mainstream media have latched on and really blown it up -- picking up pictures and video that have been really vivid."

He added, "It was initially small but now something that is really growing. It shows the power still of the media to create a platform for change."

Interestingly, it was the content of social media that drew the attention of many in the mainstream media.

Ultimately, content is the killer app, Rattray said. What leads to the most engagement? The game mechanics of social media can help push something viral, but just as important is the messaging, he argued.

Crowdwise co-founder Robert Wolfe agreed, and he added that it's easy to miss what really affects change.

"A lot of times organizations talk about community," he said. "This may sound silly, but it makes people even more anonymous. It's really about individuals who affect change and build movements."

Many individuals, gathering on social networks, getting the attention of mainstream media, with the potential to create social change. It's all connected in this age of the World Wide Web.

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NEW YORK -- A panel on social innovation and social change started with a joke. A panelist said they should go the full hour without saying the word "Twitter." But Twitter, along with Facebook, were unavoidable terms that came up repeatedly in the discussion Thursday at an Advertising Week event at 300 Madison Avenue in New York City.

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tools for the next revolution

qaul.net verwirklicht ein redundantes, offenes Kommunikationsprinzip, in dem die WLAN-fähigen Computer und Mobile-Devices direkt ein spontanes Netz bilden. Chat- und Twitterfunktionen oder Filmstreaming wird unabhängig von Internet und Mobilfunk möglich. Wie ein Virus kann sich qaul.net verbreiten und eine OpenSource Community kann qaul.net beliebig modifizieren.

In Zeiten der kommunikativen Blackouts in Ägypten, Burma oder Tibet, und angesichts der grossen Netzausfällen durch Naturkatastrophen wird qaul.net zur Herausforderung, die individuellen Kommunikationsbedingungen kritisch zu betrachten und gemeinsam neue Horizonte zu ergründen.

Supported by: Migros Kulturprozent, Eidgenössisches Bundesamt für Kultur
Awarded by: Prix Ars electronica [the next idea]
http://www.qaul.net

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qaul.net verwirklicht ein redundantes, offenes Kommunikationsprinzip, in dem die WLAN-fähigen Computer und Mobile-Devices direkt ein spontanes Netz bilden. Chat- und Twitterfunktionen oder Filmstreaming wird unabhängig von Internet und Mobilfunk möglich. Wie ein Virus kann sich qaul.net verbreiten und eine OpenSource Community kann qaul.net beliebig modifizieren.

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(Note: After an award-winning career in the media business covering the tech industry, Bob Evans was VP of Strategic Communications at SAP in 2011, and Chief Communications Officer at Oracle from 2012 to 2016. He now runs his own firm, Evans Strategic Communications LLC.)
CLOUD WARS -- As businesses move beyond cloud experiments to deeply strategic deployments, the balance of power in the Cloud Wars Top 10 is shifting toward those tech providers that can move those business customers past the infrastructure phase and into the high-value realm of AI-driven competitive advantage.

While the vast majority of media attention in the cloud's early days has gone to the top providers of public-cloud IaaS-Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google-the next and vitally more strategic theater in the Cloud Wars will be software, particularly around the booming potential for AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain.

As a result, my latest Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings reveal some major changes at or near the top of this list of the world's most-powerful and most-influential cloud-computing vendors:

#1 Microsoft remains an absolute lock at the top due to four factors: its deep involvement at all three layers of the cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS); its unmatched commitment to developing and helping customers deploy AI, ML and Blockchain in innovative production environments; its market-leading cloud revenue, which I estimate at about $16.7 billion for the trailing 12 months ( to be confused with the forward-projected $20.4 billion annualized run rate the company released on Oct. 26); and the extraordinary vision and leadership of CEO Satya Nadella.

#2 Amazon might not have the end-to-end software chops of the others in the Top 5 but it was and continues to be the poster-child for the cloud-computing movement: the first-moving paradigm-buster and category creator. I believe Amazon will make some big moves to bolster its position in software, and no matter how you slice it, the $16 billion in trailing-12-month cloud revenue from AWS is awfully impressive.

#3 IBM has leapfrogged both Salesforce.com (formerly tied with Amazon for #2 and now in the #4 spot) and SAP (formerly #4) on the strength of its un-trendy but highly successful emphasis on transforming its vast array of software expertise and technology from the on-premises world to the cloud. In so doing, IBM has quietly created a $15.8-billion cloud business (again on trailing-12-month basis) that includes revenue of $7 billion from helping big global corporations convert legacy systems to cloud or cloud-enabled environments. And like #1 Microsoft, IBM plays in all three layers of the cloud-IaaS, PaaS and SaaS-which is hugely important for the elite cloud vendors because it allows them to give customers more choices, more seamless integration, better cybersecurity, and more reasons for third-party developers to rally to the IBM Cloud. Plus, its relentless pairing of "cloud and cognitive" is an excellent approach toward weaving AI and ML deeply into customer-facing solutions.

#4 Salesforce.com falls a couple of spots from its long-time tie with Amazon at #2 but-and this will be the case as long as founder Marc Benioff is CEO-remains a powerful source of digital innovation and disruptive strategy. However, to remain in the rarified air near the top of the Cloud Wars Top 10, Benioff and Salesforce must find a way to extend their market impact beyond their enormously successful SaaS business and become more of a high-impact player in the platform or PaaS space. At this stage, it's simply not possible for Salesforce to become a player in IaaS, so Benioff needs to crank up the genius machine and hammer his way into top contention as a platform powerhouse.

#5 SAP has what all of the other cloud vendors would kill for: unmatched incumbency within all of the world's leading corporations as the supplier of mission-critical business applications that run those companies. It's also fashioned, under CEO Bill McDermott, powerful new partnerships with Amazon and Google to complement its long-standing relationships with IBM and Microsoft, all of which give customers a heightened sense of confidence that SAP will be willing and able to play nice in heterogeneous environments. Plus, SAP's HANA technology is now in full deployment across thousands of businesses, and as it takes root and SAP continues to rationalize its massive product portfolio around HANA in the cloud, SAP has a very bright future ahead of it in the cloud.

So the Cloud Wars are clearly intensifying-particularly among the five most-powerful players at the top-as business customers are fully embracing the cloud as the best and most-capable approach toward digital transformation.

And in such an environment, the long-term winners in the Cloud Wars will be those tech companies that choose to view the world by and create their strategies around what business customers want and need, rather than by the distorted and distorting tech-centric perspectives of the Silicon Valley bubble.

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The Top 5 Cloud-Computing Vendors: #1 Microsoft, #2 Amazon, #3 IBM, #4 Salesforce, #5 SAP

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As business customers rush to the cloud, the balance of power among top cloud vendors is shifting toward those with end-to-end software prowess and an emphasis on AI, ML and Blockchain. As a result, Microsoft holds tight to #1, Amazon's now alone at #2, IBM jumps to #3 and Salesforce slips to #4.

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Kann man aus subjektive Zeitwahrnehmungen eine globale Vision der Zukunft anbieten?

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Marcus Maeder: Unbekannte Klangwelt leidender Ökosysteme - TV - Play SRF

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Wie klingt die Biosphäre, wie tönen Ökosysteme? Mit neu entwickelten Aufnahmetechniken erforscht Marcus Maeder die Geräuschkulisse im Erdboden und im Geäst von Bäumen, die unter Wassermangel leiden. Er gewinnt dabei nicht nur neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, sondern entwickelt gleichzeitig neue künstlerische Ausdrucksformen in Bild-Ton-Installationen.

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Die Erdzerstörer - Kompromissloser Blick auf den Industriekapitalismus : Jean-Robert Viallet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Seit Beginn der Industrialisierung vor 200 Jahren wurden über 1400 Milliarden Tonnen Kohlenstoffdioxid in die Atmosphäre gepumpt. Laut Prognosen werden bis...

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The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)

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THE SPRAWL (PROPAGANDA ABOUT PROPAGANDA) — Official Trailer

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Wie fest dürfen wir mit der Technlogie in die Natur eingreifen? 

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Wie fest dürfen wir mit der Technlogie in die Natur eingreifen? 

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ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINE OF LOVING GRACE

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ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINE OF LOVING GRACE

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Richard Brautigan 1967
Are we afraid or relieved of a cybernetic ecology?

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, 2009