by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 2, 2012 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
For Followup Friday, I present you an extremely well presented talk on SOPA/PIPA and it’s implications, including a historical perspective on why it shifts our basic legal rights in a world where sharing is the norm. The original article to which this follows up...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 27, 2012 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2011-12-21} When a piece of freedom-busting legislation has bipartisan support, you know we’re in trouble. As one humorist wrote, “Bipartisan support is when your ex and her lawyer agree you have a problem.” The latest pile of bipartisan...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 23, 2012 | Featured, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
In a TED talk I watched recently, the assertion that access to [[the Internet]] was a human right was met with thunderous applause. But most people have no idea exactly what that means. The idea that someone has a “right” to something is often conflated...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 2, 2012 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-1-06} Did you know the world ended last week? A comet was supposed to hit the earth, kept secret by a government conspiracy. The impact would have caused a devastating tsunami, killing millions. Good thing it didn’t...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 29, 2011 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
The End of the World is Nigh! Or, at least as much as it’s always been. Are you a prophet or the follower of one? If so, I’m willing to place bets against any and all such prophesies, at any odds, because frankly, I have more sense than you. Besides, if...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 15, 2011 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Follow-up to “Old Give Way to Young, But Not Without Fears” and published in the Colorado Springs Gazette.} I know politically charged op-eds generate more letters to the editor and comments online. One of my colleagues prefers them because they “stir the...
