Archive for January, 2006

War in the age of megamachines

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

An illustration of a futuristic battle taken from the October 21st 1916 issue of the German news weekly, ‘Die Wochenschau’ (The Weekly Review).
Translation of the caption : “Fighting machines of the future : battle between a gigantic trenchdestroyer and a powerful electrically driven ‘circlecruiser’.”Science-Fiction from the Great War

Viral Hauntings: A Phenomenology of Cyberrisks

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Sometimes it is useful to go through one’s notes made at opportune moments, that were never transformed into papers - here are a few of my thoughts on the concept of cyberrisks:
When during the summer of 2003, entire network servers were being corrupted by the so called ‘blast worm virus’, it became clear that especially […]

MLK

Monday, January 16th, 2006

“I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘isness’ of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal ‘oughtness’ that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom […]

Space and Mobility

Friday, January 13th, 2006

source: http://fr.simflight.com/
Hi, back from the dead, I am (we are) soliciting interest in space and mobility. At ICAN/NTU, we are currently holding a seminar series on mobility with invited speakers. We seek to elaborate on this with four international symposia. This is what we thought might be at stake. We’re inviting any comments, suggestions, […]

Hajj under threat

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Hajj - the fifth pillar of Islam and holy pilgrimage - ends today, and in reading the news I was suddenly struck by two amazingly different pieces.
An MSNBC news-piece - Pilgrims start devil-stoning rite at climax of hajj - depicts Hajj in terms of crowds, power and risk:
“The legitimacy of Saudi Arabia’s ruling house rests […]

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