![[Review] Propaganda: Power and Persuasion](https://www.futureconscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/propaganda2-125x125.jpg)
Expectations were set high for the British Library’s most recent look at the history of propaganda – the methods it uses, the topics it focuses on and the ubiquity of its existence.… Continue Reading
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Stop Watching Us! PRISM, Surveillance and the Hierarchy of Privacy
The dramatic travels of Edward Snowden keep us suitably enthralled, however it’s important that we don’t allow a focus on the whistleblower to overshadow the far more impacting societal issues the saga continues to shine light upon.… Continue Reading
2050 Pathways: The Numbers of a Green Economy
The 2050 Pathways calculator is an impressive piece of open-source kit, allowing you to prioritise different avenues for both energy consumption and supply in an attempt to meet current emission reduction targets – “showing the benefits, costs and trade-offs of different versions of the future”.… Continue Reading
Can Digital Democracy Work?
What we’re seeing now is recognition that we have entered a transitional period in which the very foundations of civic participation and collective construction of identity have been set free from their historical limitations. From this point we can begin to conceive of new forms of ‘democracy’ that seek to incorporate plurality not only of perspective but also social form and function.… Continue Reading
We are the 99%! You are the Revolution!
We are the 99%. We are the hands and minds that allow the corporations and institutions of society to function and grow, to produce and profit. Because of this, we have ultimate power over their existence; but this also means we have a responsibility to act collectively towards a higher mode of being. The revolution begins now, with you.… Continue Reading
The 21st Century: A Tale of Paradigm Shifts and Adaptability
There is nothing new about paradigm shifts in human history. The difference that we will face in the 21st century, unlike any other that has come before, is that our ability to create and process new information is accelerating exponentially. It is time to start paying attention, because if we don’t we will be subsumed by the changes brought about through our inattentive stumbling towards the future.… Continue Reading