The Hacker Community's Foremost Social Network. World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World This article was first published on September 30, 2013. Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rules the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning. The goal is control. Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things. Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. Today, Hudes is trying very hard to expose the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. Previously, I have written about the Swiss study that Hudes mentioned. But the global elite don’t just control these mega-corporations. This system did not come into being by accident.
Silicon Valley Map - a map of tech companies and start-ups in Silicon Valley and San Francisco TECHNOREALISM Joi Ito. Director of the MIT Media Lab and a Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences Joichi “Joi” Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and advocate of emergent democracy, privacy and Internet freedom. As director of the MIT Media Lab and a Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences, he is currently exploring how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways. Soon after coming to MIT in 2011, Ito introduced mindfulness meditation training to the Media Lab. Together with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Ito teaches Principles of Awareness, a class devoted to promoting the contribution that awareness and focus can bring to the creativity process. Ito is chairman of the board of PureTech and previously served as board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons. Ito is chairman of the board of PureTech and previously served as board chair and chief executive of Creative Commons. Conflict of interest disclosure.
"Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age," Future Insight, Aug. 1994 by Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler Future Insight Release 1.2 n August 1994 Preamble The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth -- in the form of physical resources -- has been losing value and significance. The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things. In a First Wave economy, land and farm labor are the main "factors of production." The industrial age is not fully over. But the Third Wave, and the Knowledge Age it has opened, will not deliver on its potential unless it adds social and political dominance to its accelerating technological and economic strength. As humankind explores this new "electronic frontier" of knowledge, it must confront again the most profound questions of how to organize itself for the common good. The Nature of Cyberspace The challenge is as daunting as the opportunity is great. The Nature and Ownership of Property 1.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow 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. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. Davos, SwitzerlandFebruary 8, 1996
Selling the Future at the MIT Media Lab | transmediale How and why has the laboratory persisted as a site of invention and systemization of knowledge throughout the last century? This question was the focus of “The Persistence of the Lab,” a panel discussion that took place during transmediale/conversationpiece with Jussi Parikka, Ryan Bishop, John Beck, and Lori Emerson. For her presentation Emerson, who is founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab in Colorado, spoke on the history, future, and the history of the future at MIT’s famous media lab. The following is the text of this talk, which will also eventually find its way into THE LAB BOOK. The 1970 experiment SEEK by the Architecture Machine Group.Photo from the catalog of the exhibition SOFTWARE at the New York Jewish Museum. I’ve also come to see this performance as partly a product of a post-Sputnik Cold War race to outdo the Soviets no matter what the project or the cost. OLPC was launched by Negroponte in 2005 and was effectively shut down in 2014.