One for the Mouse-Potatoes: Your Future Without Net Neutrality
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Democracy without energy is Tyranny Lite. The irony is, we can now vote with our voices with the most volume in history, while expending the least energy - a single mouse-click and a few paragraphs on a keyboard - but by and large, we don’t find the energy for even that.
The result? You get the Internet you deserve. This graphic (thanks to Good Magazine) says it all (click for larger image).
Need a primer on the Net Neutrality wars being waged as we speak? Four-Eyed Monsters (their YouTube Channel here - and give them a hand with their credit card debt by joining Spout.com/foureyedmonsters for free, which earns them one dollar per signup to defray that debt) give a great one here, in Humanity Lobotomy:
I posted Save the Internet’s mailer a couple days ago. Click here for a low-energy way to contact the FCC and your congressman (if you’re American - wouldn’t hurt for the world to weigh in as well).
Or don’t - and enjoy future telecom corporations’ exciting offer of access to 2,000 blogs for only $40/month!
Think this is a joke? Check out the devious corporate shill being paid to respond to posts like this. He left a comment on the afore-mentioned post. His comment linked back to a Net Neutrality attack site that looked like a blog - except, spinelessly but not surprisingly, it did not allow comments. One-way, internet-as-TV, corporate communication at its finest.
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Great Video. I’ll be showing, and hopefully arming and informing my students next week. Funny, we’re a tablet PC school. 1:1 for seven years. I still wish it was a MAC school. The tablets are nice for the traditional, but its about putting the power to create in students hands - not mine!
Still doing great stuff Clay. I wish I had the blogger spirit in me. I just cannot seem to keep it going.
Linzel
21 Sep 07 at 10:45 pm
James, it’s good to hear from you. I hear you about the Mac school. Tapping into iLife after the Shanghai conference has opened up a huge new learning playground. I’m loving it.
As for “blogger spirit,” last I read, there was no Moses handing down any commandments that you have to blog any particular quota. Write when you’re moved, man. (And I know your mind, so I imagine for you, it’s more like “Write when you’ve got a spare minute from other responsibilities.”)
Again, nice to hear from you. You know that Project Global Cooling was a direct result of your blog post, don’t you? It’s my own “Yahoo Project.”
Clay Burell
22 Sep 07 at 4:54 am