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Celtic Web Art.
FotB gets hit from google search for "exposed thongs"
Timeless Tech
... of the walking hammers, the technology is fully exposed. It is almost a natural technology ... skin
was dehaired and tawed to produce thongs and skin for covering. ...
www.futureofthebook.com/storiestoc/tech - 14k - Cachad - Liknande sidor
FotB defines terrorism
Terrorism is the destruction of a society using its own infrastructure. Gleaming cities, pervasive news media, technologically advanced military, efficient mail service are both assets and liabilities. They are liabilities as targets or tools of destruction and they can also be liabilities as contexts for response and resilience. Societies with different infrastructures have different vulnerabilities.
The Taliban are not vulnerable in terms of a shared infrastructure. We can not bomb their gleaming cities, instantly manipulate their resident populations, contest back and forth with toys of military technology or really junk up their junk mail. So as a society we feel abused and terrorized.
Now lets say that we turn around and use our infrastructure to really contest some ground with the Taliban. Lets say we create, in a small portion of Afghanistan, a gleaming city, a pervasive news media, a technologically advanced military and an efficient mail service. In terms of history, the Islamic cultures are experts at such infrastructures.
We should encourage the building of progressive, similar infrastructures in diverse societies. This strategy is working for us in contests with societies in Russia and China. These days we tend to be less terrorized by Russian and Chinese societies. er....maybe this approach will work.
weblogs: a history & perspective
"The blogger, by virtue of simply writing down whatever is on his mind, will be confronted with his own thoughts and opinions. Blogging every day, he will become a more confident writer. A community of 100 or 20 or 3 people may spring up around the public record of his thoughts. Being met with friendly voices, he may gain more confidence in his view of the world; he may begin to experiment with longer forms of writing, to play with haiku, or to begin a creative project--one that he would have dismissed as being inconsequential or doubted he could complete only a few months before."
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