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| <nettime> Electromagnetic News & Views #5 (sample) |
[this is a sample issue of the electronetwork-list newsletter. everytime the collected urls are put together it can give of such of where things are headed in terms of electromagnetism in the news. in the last two weeks the news has been defined by surveillance and military warfare stories, and this sample issue is a snapshot of resources gathered. it is also partly related to how, at its base, much of the cultural phenomena that inhabits the news has its origin in the realm of electromagnetic science, technology, culture, and its social interaction. in this way, much of what is explored as 'digital' is a subset of the electromagnetic, which at times can be a productive approach, othertimes irrelevant. yet by bringing in this aspect, digital art, the internet, ideas and theories, all can be brought in relation to other complex aspects that are orbiting various areas of our experiences. in this way, by approaching this knowledge where expertise is drowned in the ubiquity of mystery that is its own supernatural metaphysic, it may help bring an empirical awareness to diverse studies that 'digital' or 'media' may not be able to define or relate to as readily. maybe this is not the case, entirely, but at least it is a question worth considering, and hopefully this newsletter can show some of the depth and range of such connections...] =================================================== Electromagnetic News & Views -- #5 (sample) =================================================== 01) Links to Top Electromagnetic Stories 02) Electromagnetic health & medicine 03) Electromagnetic trash & treasure 04) Electromagnetic security & surveillance 05) Electromagnetic power & energy 06) Electromagnetic current & human affairs 07) Electromagnetic transportation & communication 09) Electromagnetic trends & inventions 10) Electromagnetic weaponry & warfare 11) Electromagnetic art & design 12) Electromagnetic commerce & industry =================================================== 01) --top stories-- --------------------------------------------------- // how insurance companies may help in transforming // traditional industries with alternative energy... A Hot Tip For Wall Street U.N. Tells CEOs: Don't Ignore Global Warming http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6602 "Worldwide losses due to natural disasters appear to be doubling every 10 years, it reports, estimating these will be $150 billion per year during the next decade. Severe climate, which is increasing, threatens insurers and banks to the point of insolvency - certainly on par, if not exceeding, property damage from terrorism." Kofi Annan's IT challenge to Silicon Valley http://news.com.com/2010-1069-964507.html "The new information and communications technologies are among the driving forces of globalization. They are bringing people together, and bringing decision makers unprecedented new tools for development. At the same time, however, the gap between information "haves" and "have-nots" is widening, and there is a real danger that the world's poor will be excluded from the emerging knowledge-based global economy." Lampposts conceal mini cellphone transmitters Low-power mobile phone transmitters could soon be hidden inside hundreds of lampposts and telephone poles in UK cities. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992996 // domestication of this military surveillance technology // for other uses. much like drones or spy satellites used // for ecological monitoring, or other friendly missions. Sensors gone wild http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/1028/076.html "Early this year a pilotless aircraft sprinkled three dozen cheap wireless magnetic sensors, each about the size of a credit card, along a road at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twenty Nine Palms, California. Once they hit the ground, these sensors automatically formed a wireless network and began to scan the environment for magnetic signals. When a vehicle rolled by, they could tell from its magnetic signature what kind it was, its speed and direction. The readings were sent wirelessly through the aircraft to headquarters." How the shark got its hammerhead http://www.newscientist.com/news/ news.jsp;jsessionid=BOJBCPPFCLNH?id=ns99993019 "The two types of sharks proved equally adept at sensing the electric fields: each was able to detect the source from up to 30 centimetres away. That ruled out any improved sensitivity from the wider head. .. However, the hammerheads enjoy another, more prosaic, advantage: their wider heads let them sweep more than twice as wide a swathe of the seafloor as they swim, which must boost their chance of encountering food." --------------------------------------------------- 02-- electromagnetic health & medicine --------------------------------------------------- Too Much Screen Time Can Make Computer Users Sick http://www.reuters.com/ news_article.jhtml?type=healthnews&StoryID=1684171 --------------------------------------------------- 03-- electromagnetic trash & treasure --------------------------------------------------- Ultra-high resolution DVDs are unprotected http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993034 Spy Satellite Pictures Are Unveiled http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19970.html Why microchips weigh over a kilogram http://www.nature.com/nsu/021028/021028-12.html "A typical 2-gram silicon chip requires 1.6 kilograms of fossil fuel, 72 grams of chemicals and 32 kilograms of water to manufacture, according to a new estimate." --------------------------------------------------- 04-- electromagnetic security & surveillance --------------------------------------------------- US gov's 'ultimate database' run by a felon http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28107.html & Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans (By JOHN MARKOFF) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.html & You Are a Suspect By WILLIAM SAFIRE http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html Chapter One from the book, "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security", by Kevin Mitnick and William Simon. http://www.labmistress.com/content/pn/html/ modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2&mode=thread&order=0& thold=0 & House considers jailing hackers for life http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965750.html?tag=fd_top "Noisy light" is new key to encryption Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of light to encrypt information into code that can be cracked only one way: by breaking the physical laws of nature. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965957.html?tag=fd_top & Quantum Technology Isn't Just Sci-Fi Anymore http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=74&ncid=74&e=8&u=/cmp/ 20021107/tc_cmp/iwk20021107s0003 Proponents Push for Biometric IDs http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1093&ncid=1093&e=1&u=/ pcworld/20021031/tc_pcworld/106533 // Pradada retail-concept upgraded to World Version 2.0... New Chips for Keeping Up with the Joneses Retailers could scan shoppers peering through their windows to see which products they are eyeing, and send them http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19879.html Iris-recognition being used in airports, refugee camps http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4456904.htm --------------------------------------------------- 05-- electromagnetic power & energy --------------------------------------------------- Energy Department Focuses on Hydrogen http://ens-news.com/ens/nov2002/2002-11-13-09.asp#anchor4 Circuit gets more power from shakes http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/111302/ Circuit_gets_more_power_from_shakes_111302.html "Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have boosted the efficiency of piezoelectric circuits, which transfer the mechanical energy of vibrations into useful electric power. Piezoelectric circuits are commonly used to convert a watch-wearer's motion into energy to power the watch." // an engineering solution to a cultural problem... Space-Based Power System Needed to Solve Earth’s Energy Woes http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/ space_power_021031.html Reducing Your Electrical Bill http://www.econogics.com/en/poweroff.htm --------------------------------------------------- 06-- electromagnetic current & human affairs --------------------------------------------------- Voting into the Void // good article on electronic voting. http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/05/voting_machines/ The Potential for Community Radio in Afghanistan http://comunica.org/afghanistan/ State Coalition Approves Internet Sales Tax Plan Prospects in Legislatures, GOP Congress Uncertain http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40364-2002Nov11.html The Color of Cool // blue LED light backgrounder http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,44549|2,FF.html Net sales tax plan clears first hurdle More than 30 U.S. states approved a pact Tuesday that represents a major step toward creating a system to tax items sold on the Internet. http://news.com.com/2100-1017-965554.html?tag=lh Diamonds? Who Cares? Give Me HDTV http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56245,00.html --------------------------------------------------- 07-- electromagnetic transportation & communication --------------------------------------------------- // solar-powered Wi-Fi broadband (thanks H) New Tech Taps Solar Power To Deliver Broadband http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19946.html Coax goes nano http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/111302/Coax_goes_nano_111302.html Using a Hard Drive to Show Films in Theaters http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/movies/14DIGI.html?todaysheadlines Antenna System Is Said to Expand Wireless Internet Use http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/technology/04WIRE.html?todaysheadlines The Sky, Up Close and Digital http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/technology/circuits/07astr.html Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive // deep data archiving http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54345,00.html "Now, a group of scientists and engineers are crafting a modern Rosetta stone that will preserve more than 1,400 of the world's 7,000 languages on a 3-inch nickel disk." --------------------------------------------------- 09-- electromagnetic trends & inventions --------------------------------------------------- Why the future will be easier to use http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2449009.stm "In its annual technology forecast, research firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) predicts that much of the complexity of computing will start to be hidden over the next few years." Gadget Overload Relief in Sight http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55804,00.html "It's called software defined radio; a technology that replaces analog radio circuitry with digitally generated samples of radio waveforms." --------------------------------------------------- 10-- electromagnetic weaponry & warfare --------------------------------------------------- Three Sites Remain Radioactive from Bosnian War http://ens-news.com/ens/nov2002/2002-11-13-02.asp "(sites).. targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium during the mid-1990s are still radioactive enough to pose a risk to human health.." Nuclear Weapon EMP Effects http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/emp.htm // note the use of targeted radio broadcasts, cellphones, // and answering machine messages for PSY-OPerations... Pentagon prepares psychological warfare campaign for Iraq http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/nation_world_news/article/ 0,1713,BDC_2420_1545202,00.html US military scores laser success http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2407807.stm & In a first, battlefield laser blows up speeding shell http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/11/ 08/financial1642EST0244.DTL "The shell, moving at about 1,000 mph, was tracked by radar and heat-sensing infrared sensors, then locked onto and zapped by the laser beam traveling at light speed." Bunker-busters set to go nuclear http://www.newscientist.com/news/ news.jsp;jsessionid=NBMIJGAGCLNH?id=ns99993016 "Research into the nuclear bunker-buster follows the Bush administration's leaked Nuclear Posture Review, which in part set out the circumstances under which nuclear weapons might be used. It says the RNEP could be used in pre-emptive strikes against rogue states using deeply buried facilities to store weapons of mass destruction, for example." --------------------------------------------------- 11-- electromagnetic art & design --------------------------------------------------- the Landsat-7 Earth as Art Gallery http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/ Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life By DAVID GELERNTER http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/technology/circuits/07soft.html 3D images offer new perspective A new method of producing digital images could change many elements of design and teaching, say researchers in Scotland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2397907.stm --------------------------------------------------- 12-- electromagnetic commerce & industry --------------------------------------------------- The Future of 3D E-Commerce Although 3D modeling applications have been used mainly in the retail clothing sector, Gartner's Jackie Fenn foresees wider use of video technologies that "explore spaces" -- such as interiors of cars, apartments or homes. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19868.html Shopping for RFID // also belongs in surveillance... Radio frequency identification is becoming the technology of the future. Take an in-depth look at why radio waves are in demand. http://www.securitymagazine.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/coverstory/ BNPCoverStoryItem/0,5409,86576,00.html Audio book rental is novel idea that works http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4461870.htm =================================================== * to subscribe to the electronetwork-list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with the following command in the body of the message: subscribe electronetwork-l * to unsubscribe: unsubscribe electronetwork-l * for more info contact [email protected] --------------------------------------------------- the electromagnetic internetwork-list electromagnetism / infrastructure / civilization archives.openflows.org/electronetwork-l http://www.electronetwork.org/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]