the revolution

Not unlike the 'revolution' led by 'Morpheus' and others, this new protest against the authorities (dubbed as a cyber war by many) is an example of what a seamless, open communication platform(read internet) can do. A Wikileaks, with all its scale, was possible because of such a platform.  Leaving aside the political side of it and looking at the dynamics of the whole process, it seems clear that just by providing a open communication platform, a complex system like a society gets a power of self regulation, thus, leading to a sustainable society. The withdrawal of support of some companies(mastercard, paypal etc..) towards wikileaks led to a coordinated jamming of these sites. This kind of self regulation, can lead to a gradual change in structure of the modern society, if being transparent is going to help sustain humanity in the most optimized way, then this is how its going to be. The most common example given to explain behavior of complex system is that of a crowd clapping in a rock concert(say). The people start clapping randomly and within no time they some how sync with each other making a rhythmic sound. Now, consider if the individuals couldn't hear each other, then there is no reason for them to sync up. Now this is a simple example, as the only parameter to be tuned is the time interval of claps. But for system like the society, the variables are infinite. A fair bet would be to provide a seamless and open communication platform and connecting all individuals, from farmers to students to businessmen to politicians and see the world evolve to a more 'idealistic' and sustainable structure. This simple act could directly mean the solution of age old problems of poverty and unstable economy. 

chrome and cloud

Glad to have pdf support on chrome 8. I am already using it to open even local pdfs. The release of chrome webstore and the bunch of apps (some  of which also run offline, like the chess game) is ready to 'spoil' people by making 'em stick to the internet even more(..damn! i should get back to the books..). After using jolicloud OS for sometime and keeping the jolicloud pinned in chrome, ubuntu..i want more simplicity. Will try out the Chrome OS soon (no :(  i didn't get the CR-48s). The CR-48(no idea why they chose 48 isotope, halflife 21 hrs, from a bunch of others) seems really simple(search youtube) and has 3G support. So the idea is to keep it connected all the time. If the speeds were high one can even avoid buying external disks, and may be buy disk space in the cloud(cheaper). Store docs with Google or MS, store music and movies somewhere where you can stream it for free.. Alls good except you need a good speed. Google's experiments with 1Gbps connection would surely make sure of that.. making the cloud connection faster than the normal local harddisk speeds(not talking about the new seagate/AMD baracuda 6Gbps sata hard disks, but the naive 100-200Mbps ones). Internet speed will become a fundamental right of people. But wait, its already is..in Finland and in Spain! A minimum of 1Mbps connection is now a fundamental right of people!! Sounds futuristic.