decay of knowledge Alvin toffler on new economies in NPQ>

http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2006_summer/02_toffler.html
Above all, the emerging new civilization is a civilization of choice.

choice in religion _ see T. Leary>

Monogamy won’t go away, but polygamy may gain wider acceptance.
that's PolyAmory!

Kenichi Ohmae, the Japanese management expert, calls cyberspace “the new continent” where entrepreneurial explorers are seeking—and making—their fortunes.

Toffler | Absolutely, this is another aspect of the “third job.” In an information-based system, everything is out there. Some consumer advocates are already starting to demand payment for the sale and use of their personal information, whether revealed by their purchases at the supermarket or a visit to a Web site.

All this is just the beginning. We are going to see an explosion of unpaid work. Soon there will be 1 billion people over 60. They will be using new technologies, from self-diagnosis to toilet urinalysis, to do for themselves what doctors used to do.

This acceleration can transform current knowledge into what we call “obsoledge”—outdated information—overnight. Time and the rapid decay of knowledge are very much related in an information society.

Toffler | One of the key problems in the world today is de-synchronization—“the clash of speeds” between the old, lumbering mass system and the new diversity, flexibility and acceleration demanded of institutions built on knowledge. They are out of sync.

Toffler | What we saw on the streets of Paris was “wave conflict”—the conflict that arises from the shift out of a “second wave” mass society to a “third wave” knowledge society; it is a battle between those who benefit from the old system and those who would benefit from the new.

It is the small states—Finland or Ireland, for example—that are in sync with the revolution now under way. NPQ |

http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2006_summer/02_toffler.html


see Shadow Work by Ivan Illich>

Psychedelic ReSearch takes off in vancouver, B. C. , long history of dosing

Psychedelics Could Treat Addiction Says Vancouver Official

City's drug policy honcho sees 'profound benefits'. A special report.

View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/08/09/Psychedelics/

By Danielle Egan

Published: August 9, 2006

TheTyee.ca

Vancouver's top drug policy official and B.C. public health physicians believe addicts might be treated by giving them psychedelic drugs, and they hope the city will lead in exploring the controversial approach.

In the late 1950s, New Westminster-based Hollywood Hospital was a leader in therapeutic psychedelics, almost a decade before Timothy Leary encouraged the masses to "turn on, tune in and drop out" on acid. Founded by eccentric American entrepreneur Al Hubbard, Hollywood Hospital catered to a mixed clientele of American celebrities and Canadian politicians given LSD to treat alcoholism, drug addiction and psychological burn-out. For almost a decade after LSD was criminalized in North America in the late 1960s, Hollywood Hospital served up therapeutic LSD before the provincial government pulled funding in 1975 and the hospital closed.

One Canadian Medical Association Journal paper written by University of Toronto professor Harold Kalant in 2001 discussed the varied potentially fatal risks of taking street ecstasy but he added that there was "no evidence" that taking the drug would lead to addiction and even said that the drug "may be of potential value as an aid in psychotherapy" though "similar claims were made earlier for MDA, LSD and other hallucinogens but...no lasting benefit was found in a 10-year follow-up study of patients treated with LSD" and "no comparable study has been conducted on patients treated with MDMA."

The recommendations in the reports by the city of Vancouver and the Health Officers Council of B.C. have also turned on American researchers. "Those reports touch on the vanguard of treatment efforts with substance abuse and are a common-sense approach to drug abuse treatment and harm reduction," said Dennis McKenna, an ethnopharmacologist and psychedelic drug researcher based in Minnesota who plans to return to Vancouver to research Amazonian plants this September at BCIT. McKenna, a "child of the 60s," started sampling psychedelics in the Haight-Ashbury, area of San Francisco, then split for the Amazon to sample psilocybin with his brother Terrence, who detailed their trips in the book True Hallucinations.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/08/09/Psychedelics/print.html

Must See Video! Britan's George Galloway shreds Sky News Interviewer

George Galloway rebuts one biased, dumb question after another from Sky News reporter........educating her on the true facts of the Isreal - Lebanon conflict and the history behind it. If only we had people in the US who stood up the media know-nothings like this.

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where is your soul when you are frozen? "Souls" on Ice ! MotherJones.com | News

MotherJones.com | News:


"Souls On Ice: America's Embryo Glut and the Wasted Promise of Stem Cell Research
How 500,000 frozen embryos are forcing us to rethink life, choice, and reproductive freedom

Liza Mundy
July/August 2006 Issue

Aanis Elspas is a mother of four. Unlike most parents, she had three of her children simultaneously. The nine-year-old triplets were born in 1997 after Elspas underwent a series of in vitro fertilization treatments for infertility. Her oldest child, 10, is the happy result of a prior ivf treatment round. Elspas worked hard to get her children, and is grateful to have them. But four, thanks very much, are plenty. The problem is that Elspas also has 14 embryos left over from the treatment that produced her 10-year-old. The embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen at a California frozen storage facility%u2014she is not entirely sure where%u2014while Elspas and her husband ponder what to do with them.

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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/souls_on_ice.html

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psychedelics have always played well by Mark Morford

But let us sidestep the face-slapping obviousness. Let us look past the fact that you are meant to react to this study's findings like it's some sort of revelation, like it doesn't merely reinforce roughly 10 thousand years of evidence and modern research and opinioneering and responsible advocacy by everyone from Timothy Leary to Terence McKenna to Huston Smith to the Tibetan Book of the Dead with yet another study to add to the pile in the Science of the No Duh.

Ah, but then there's the third way. This is to suggest that it's exactly the other way around, that perhaps at least some of us are, as Leary and his cosmic cohorts have suggested for decades, just inches from the celestial doorway, already on the precipice of realizing that we are, in fact, the divine we so desperately seek. Problem is, we can't see the edge through the tremendous fog of consumerism and conservatism and quasi-religious muck.

But even so, every now and then we manage to take a tiny, unconscious, clumsy step ever closer to the edge, stumbling toward ecstasy without really knowing or understanding that we're doing so. And ultimately, sly entheogens like psilocybin are merely nature's way of clearing the fog for a moment, of letting us know just how close we are by smacking us upside the scientific head and tying our cosmic shoelaces together. And doesn't that sound like a fascinating way to spend the weekend?
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cloud of toxic depleted uranium from weapons in Lebanon?

http://www.cadu.org.uk/

No danger from uranium cloud? (not!)
By Jean Christou

CYPRUS IS not in danger from a cloud of toxic depleted uranium from weapons allegedly being used by Israel against Lebanon, Health Minister Charalambous Charalambous said yesterday.

Charalambous, responding to reports, and to a warning from the Green Party of the danger to Cyprus, said the threat was hypothetical.

He said however that his Ministry was well prepared to face up to such a situation in case the theoretical threat turned into a potential threat to Cyprus.

Depleted uranium is a chemically toxic and radioactive heavy metal used particularly in armour-piercing ammunition. They burn up on impact, creating a radioactive dust, the effect of which remains the subject of safety debates. Like other heavy metals, DU is toxic and constitutes a health risk independent of any residual radioactivity.

Amnesty International (AI) has called on all governments to consider refraining from the transfer and use of DU weapons. "
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=27176&cat_id=1

Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less

Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less

UPDATE, 6:45 p.m. ET: Watch the video of the Ellch/Maynor presentation on a new method they discovered for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine. For background and details, see the text below the video player for this morning's post.

Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch and David Maynor put on a demonstration today at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on how to hack the low-level computer code that powers many internal and external wireless cards installed in Windows and Macintosh systems. (Video courtesy Ellch and Maynor)

Original Post -- 7:30 a.m. ET, Aug. 2:

If you want to grab the attention of a roomful of hackers, one sure fire way to do it is to show them a new method for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/hijacking_a_macbook_in_60_seco.html