Far too many 20th-century based assumptions, but a couple interesting speculations about possible augmented reality applications.

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I hate to keep harping on this point, but the more I think about it, the more concerned I am becoming that the notion of digital curation is an inadequate notion on which to sell a program for electronic records or digital archives.....In other words, a major campus committee looking at the future recommends that a major part of its vision revolve around preserving publications and datasets.

John Robb is the editor of the Global Guerrilla blog, which focuses on how the new breed of insurgents are using distributed network tactics; in this book, he suggest new defense mechanisms, which means that nation-states must also adapt distributed tactics. His upcoming book will deal with local resilience strategies to survive the hollowing of states in the period of capitalist dislocation.

The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized, and just economies, through legal research, professional training, resource development, and education

The Center for Economic and Policy Research put out a new report on the fiscal burden of the American prison system: We calculate that a reduction by one-half in the incarceration rate of non-violent offenders would lower correctional expenditures by $16.9 billion per year and return the U.S. to about the same incarceration rate we had in 1993 (which was already high by historical standards). The large majority of these savings would accrue to financially squeezed state and local governments, amounting to about one-fourth of their annual corrections budgets. As a group, state governments could save $7.6 billion, while local governments could save $7.2 billion.