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Ed Snowden’s surprise from-remote appearance at TED 2014 in Vancouver today

Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

Edward Snowden made a surprise appearance at the TED 2014 main conference in Vancouver today. TED is calling it “Here’s how we take back the Internet.” From a remote location in Russia he could remotely control a wheeled bot that allowed “him” to turn around and look at the audience. Good remarks. And then Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, comes out of the audience to talk to …read more

Tags: CSEC, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, internet freedom, NSA, police state, privacy, security state, surveillance, TED 2014, TED Vancouver, Tim Berners-Lee
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How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Entertaining little documentary on the NSA, narrated by Evangeline Lilly. “How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance.”

Tags: CIA, NSA, Obama, police state, prism, surveillance
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Surveillance camera map, Vancouver

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Very nice map of surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver, by the Vancouver Public Space Network. Disturbing content aside, it’s a very attractive map.

Tags: B.C., BC, Big Brother, British Columbia, cameras, Canada, Canadian, CCTV, map, surveillance, Vancouver, Vancouver Public Space Network
Posted in British Columbia, cities, politics, urban planning, Vancouver | 4 Comments »

Book in progress: Habitat

To read about my book project on Vancouver's UN-Habitat Forum event of 1976 concerning just and sustainable urban settlements, click here. Few know that Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Mead, Mother Teresa, Paolo Soleri and Maggie & Pierre Trudeau, along with many thousands of others, came to Vancouver in 1976 to talk about better, safer, fairer and greener cities worldwide. In fact it was the founding conference of UN Habitat, an agency built around a foundational document called The Vancouver Declaration. My book is about what happened that year and is a snapshot not just of Vancouver but of how people around the world began to view cities and themselves differently in the wake of, among other things, the first oil crisis. ____________________________________

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This blog is a long, somewhat messy photo essay on the history and politics of design. The socio-historical context of design - that is, the origin of the design of objects, dwellings and cities - seems too often ignored. Historical knowledge can be fugitive in the New World, with everything so decontextualized in the flow of commodities. Don't even get me started on tumblr and pinterest.

This blog concerns itself more with the modern/contemporary and the ancient than the eras and styles that lie in between.....read more

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Posts Tagged ‘surveillance’

Ed Snowden’s surprise from-remote appearance at TED 2014 in Vancouver today

How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance

Surveillance camera map, Vancouver

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