Helicopter Lessons
I: The Drive to Connect Recently I spent a weekend in Melbourne visiting my good friends Darren and Leah, whom I’ve known since I first moved to Australia. Last December they conceived, and in early...
View ArticlePaperworks / Padworks
I: Paper, works At the end of May I received an email from a senior official at the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. DEECD was in the midst of issuing an RFP, looking...
View ArticleThe Blueprint
With every day, with every passing hour, the power of the state mobilizes against Wikileaks and Julian Assange, its titular leader. The inner processes of statecraft have never been so completely...
View ArticleHyperdemocracy
For the past three hundred years, the relationship between the press and the state has been straightforward: the press tries to publish, the state uses its various mechanisms to thwart those efforts....
View ArticleSmoke Signals
[ Please note that this essay uses some rough language.] Introduction: The First Billion Seconds In a few days time, it will be exactly thirty-two years – a bit more than a billion seconds – since I...
View ArticleThe New Toolkit
This article will be published in the Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics. Introduction: The Age of Connection Anthropologists have appropriated the word ‘toolkit’ to describe the suite of...
View ArticlePower vs People(Now look what YOU made me do!)
* In the beginning, there is perfect Power, Power with a Thousand Faces: pharaoh, padishah, emperor, king, Lord Protector, Generalissimo, El Presidente. Power pure and uninterrupted. We have but to...
View ArticleThe Connected City
I During my first visit to Sydney, in 1997, I made arrangements to catch up with some friends living in Drummoyne. I was staying at the Novotel Darling Harbour, so we arranged to meet in front of the...
View ArticleFlexible Futures
I: A Brief Tour of the Future During my first visit to Sydney, in 1997, I made arrangements to catch up with some friends living in Drummoyne. I was staying at the Novotel Darling Harbour, so we...
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