Rethinking Subversion, a response to Sixty Minute’s Kroft on behalf of Julian Assange

Rethinking Subversion, a response to Sixty Minute’s Kroft on behalf of Julian Assange

What Julian Assange COULD have said to 60 Minutes' host Steve Kroft’s question: “Are you a subversive?” Assange: Am I a subversive?  Not at all; in fact, you can say that I’m a superversive.  Do you know where the word “subversive” comes from?  It’s from the Latin sub + vertio.  Sub means “underneath” or “below”,...

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Social Networking and Consciousness

I would like to say that the quite frankly astonishing rise of social-networking tools clearly points to an unmet need in the 'wired' populace at large.  We increasingly live in a fragmented society, where our friends and family are scattered across the globe.  Many of use no longer, for economic, personal, or many other...

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