BBC: How we are being watched
CCTV CAMERAS
There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people - making it one of the most watched places on earth.
AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION
SHOP RFID TAGS
MOBILE PHONE TRIANGULATION
STORE LOYALTY CARDS
CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS
OYSTER CARDS
SATELLITES
No-one outside the military and intelligence community really has any idea of the level of monitoring from the skies.
But the popularity of Google Earth must lead users to guess that the military probably have their hands on something a whole lot better.
ELECTORAL ROLL
NHS PATIENTS RECORDS
PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDERS
PHONE-TAPPING
BUGS AND HIDDEN CAMERAS
WORKER CALL MONITORING
COOKIES
One of the most subtle forms of surveillance is the use of HTTP cookies - small packets of data that are used to communicate between websites and your computer. They are used to set your preferences when you visit a website for a second time and for a host of other reasons.
You can switch your cookies off but then there's a host of websites that you will be unable to use properly. Want to shop online? Well then you might just have to accept being watched.
BBC: Britain is 'surveillance society'
Fears that the UK would "sleep-walk into a surveillance society" have become a reality, the government's information commissioner has said.
BBC: iPod add-on 'fails' privacy test
Joggers using the iPod Sport kit to keep fit are putting their personal privacy at risk, warn scientists.
2006/12/19
2006/12/15
FREITAG
FREITAG recycled bags manufactured in Zurich from used truck trapaulins / seatbelts / innertubes
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arts-design
theFLOW™
designing sustainable growth
theFLOWmarket™ / theFLOWinstitute™
new needs
A rising demand for sustainable innovation
Throughout the 20th century the pursuit for technological and economic progress has given the industrialized world great new possibilities but has also resulted in a wide range of imbalances and challenges on 3 levels:
• The individual - man’s relation to oneself: (rising stress- depression- and obesity curves, addictions, eating disorders, symptom treatment etc.)
• The collective - man’s relation to society: (over-consumption, increasing fear, xenophobia, global inequality, cultural rectification, conflicts over resources, commercialisation etc.)
• The environmental - man’s relation to nature: (pollution, agricultural toxics, factory farming, decreasing bio-diversity etc.)
Challenges that individually and together bear witness to an unhealthy development of our societies. As a response a need for more sustainable growth is rising to the top of the agenda of individuals, business and nations.
Thus a new consumer market based on values is expanding rapidly, where the materialistically rich consumer increasingly judges products and sevices on their immaterial values and on level of sustainability.
Businesses, whose role is changing from being production units to becoming ”corporate citizens” know this. They themselves point towards social responsibility and innovation as the most important competitive parameters of tomorrow, but they lack the skills to combine the to notions.
theFLOWmarket™ / theFLOWinstitute™
new needs
A rising demand for sustainable innovation
Throughout the 20th century the pursuit for technological and economic progress has given the industrialized world great new possibilities but has also resulted in a wide range of imbalances and challenges on 3 levels:
• The individual - man’s relation to oneself: (rising stress- depression- and obesity curves, addictions, eating disorders, symptom treatment etc.)
• The collective - man’s relation to society: (over-consumption, increasing fear, xenophobia, global inequality, cultural rectification, conflicts over resources, commercialisation etc.)
• The environmental - man’s relation to nature: (pollution, agricultural toxics, factory farming, decreasing bio-diversity etc.)
Challenges that individually and together bear witness to an unhealthy development of our societies. As a response a need for more sustainable growth is rising to the top of the agenda of individuals, business and nations.
Thus a new consumer market based on values is expanding rapidly, where the materialistically rich consumer increasingly judges products and sevices on their immaterial values and on level of sustainability.
Businesses, whose role is changing from being production units to becoming ”corporate citizens” know this. They themselves point towards social responsibility and innovation as the most important competitive parameters of tomorrow, but they lack the skills to combine the to notions.
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arts-design,
news-topic
The Sultan's Elephant
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The Sultan’s Elephant, created by theatrical magicians Royal de Luxe.
(Central London 4-7 May 2006)
The Sultan’s Elephant, created by theatrical magicians Royal de Luxe.
(Central London 4-7 May 2006)
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arts-design,
film-video
2006/12/14
BBC Planet Earth
Stunning BBC wildlife documentary in state-of-the-art HD broadcast quality: Planet Earth
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film-video
2006/12/09
El Laberinto del Fauno
One of the best films in years, directed by Guillermo del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) Official Movie Site
Apple QuickTime trailers
1944西班牙內戰後 給成年人的童話故事 從一個淌血的女孩說起...
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) Official Movie Site
Apple QuickTime trailers
1944西班牙內戰後 給成年人的童話故事 從一個淌血的女孩說起...
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film-video
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