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McCain as Netizen
Considering John McCain’s age, it’s not surprising that he doesn’t use e-mail. But I agree with Lev Grossman that McCain should be a netizen too. There might come a time when he needs to use the Net for emergencies or cyberwarfare.
The irony for him is that people are now using less e-mail because most of it are just work distraction. Companies should follow the example of Intel which has ‘e-mail free days to boost productivity.’ Imagine MS, Google and IBM acknowledging the Info Overload problem.
Poch Peralta
Manila
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August 22, 2008
HI TECH predictions
On August 1986, Michael Palin of the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, predicted that ‘time will soon come when no one will actually have to get to the office’ (because of technology).
Now that we have the Net, wi-fi’s, cel phones, etc. his prediction might already be halfway true. His conclusion: ‘By the year 2050, we could all be back in the trees again (like monkeys) while below us our cars will be driving around on their own, phoning each other.’
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August 15, 2008
China Olympics
What do you think would have happened if the Dalai Lama didn’t support the China Olympics and instead urged the nations to boycott it? It would have been interesting to see which countries would have heeded his call.
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August 15, 2008
INK KILL
Since the time of Voltaire and Rousseau (15th cen), ink and print had been the downfall of dictators. As Napoleon has said,: ’The advent of cannon killed the feudal system; ink will kill the modern social organization.’
Maybe he prophesied what the Net is doing now.
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August 08, 2008
China’s might
Even though China is agonizing at its self-reinvention, at least their progress is steady. It’s never easy for (a man or) a country to escape from its past.
In the exclusive Chiang Kai Shek Manila School, I was surprised to hear the students loitering at the schoolyard not speaking Chinese or English but Filipino!
The mystery of China is that despite being one of the oldest civilizations and its slow pace of life and progress, it doesn’t cease to be a world power and keeps on getting more powerful
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August 08, 2008
Obama and Europe
If Europe loves Obama but it wouldn’t vote for him, then Stefan Theil is insinuating that Europe reeks of political hypocrisy, isn’t he?
If ever Obama becomes US president, that would only mean one thing: there’s no racism in the US which would make the Americans really biblically moral fundamentally—a dream bigger than Martin Luther’s but which is also possible like any other.
Would it be more correct if we call Obama a Pessimistic Realist instead as an optimistic realist? As I see it, most realists are pessimists by experience.
By the way, McCain wasn’t flip-flopping when he argued that a ‘League of Democracies’ should expel both Russia and China from the group—he took a big gamble.
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August 08, 2008
British juveniles
British Prime Minister Brown’s proposal of threatening parents of juvenile criminals with eviction may be outlandish or dictatorial but it might very possibly work.
Parents have the good option of volunteering their crime-prone teeners to be locked in juvenile rehab jails.
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August 08, 2008
My First Blog Post
American ‘little press lords’ use the Net to hit their targets like what KellyB did to Politico.com.
Since the time of Voltaire and Rousseau (15th cen), ink and print had been the downfall of dictators. As Napoleon has said,: ’The advent of cannon killed the feudal system; ink will kill the modern social organization.’
Maybe he prophesied what the Net is doing now.
In Philippines, ‘press dictators’ hit corrupt officials, workers and offices by sending text messages to radio stations that announce them—almost all of them hit correctly praise them (you can almost see the targets cringe in pain!).What’s shocking and more so disgusting is that when you later check the corrupt person attacked, you’ll be shocked to see that the exposure of the person’s corruption doesn’t even prick him a bit. Reminds you of crocodile skin— literally.
Other countries should avail of this practice too.
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