Telegram from Dr. Karl Thurn, University of Laibach, to Professor Albrecht Aigen, care Mathematical Institute, Bozen.

The Founding Principles of America aren’t good, nor have they ever represented a utopia; that is a realm better left to the mouths of socialists and theists. That mentioned; America, in her founding rules aren’t excellent, but I consider it is the closest we have now come. You say that the Constitution is a dwelling document; that is true, as long, because the ideas of particular person freedom are adhered to and that isn’t the present scenario.

I cannot recommend that these exterior the US continue to use Google, Fb or any of the opposite services identified to be linked to the PRISM program, till those companies clearly reveal that it’s inconceivable for the NSA and its ilk to read the information of these folks. This definitely applies to all business communications, but additionally … Read the rest

Nikolai Novikov was the Soviet Ambassador to the United States in 1946-1947 and he ready his telegram for Stalin and Molotov. Though Novikov’s telegram consciously mirrors the quite breathless and apocalyptic tone of Kennan’s, he makes some fascinating points.

We stay in a world the place the usage of expertise is accelerating at breakneck pace. From cell phones and video video games to smart appliances and social networks, with each passing day, expertise turns into extra a part of everyday life. When you feel such as you’re caught in a dashing current of bits and bytes that appears to be carrying you away from the world you knew, away from a place of comfort – know that you just’re not alone. That is the lifescape of the 21st century. However is technology in management? Completely not! Society is not any more managed by expertise than Invoice was by Hillary.

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