We live in a New Age. Technology not only runs our lives, it rules our being and ruins our sense of comprehensive societal cohesion. Has access to the internet become a fundamental human right? If so, should we have to pay for that right of access?
I am fascinated by how we know, learn and propagate information into the icy aging of our future. This week I had a flood of email in my Facebook Inbox — from only my friends in Germany — suggesting the social networking service was running out of server space.
From January 10-16, 2009, the incredible Gordon Davidescu and I published 50 new articles — you’re reading number fifty right now — in the Boles Blogs Network! That is an incredible and unbelievable new publication record that didn’t happen by chance or circumstance. Gordon wrote 13 network blog articles and one Go Inside Magazine article and I wrote the rest.
We know half the world is urban — but what will our world look like in the year 2100? We will be compressed even further up and away from each other in skyscrapers? Or will we begin to winnow out and find room to stretch the horizon?
Andreas Saugstad wrote this article.
Two of the most prolific and famous philosophers in the twentieth century were Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Russell was Wittgenstein’s teacher in Cambridge around 1911. Russell was the leading philosopher in England at that time, and one of the world’s leading thinkers in philosophy of mathematics and logic.
Continue reading → Reflections on Russell and Wittgenstein: Changing Oneself and Changing the World
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