1. Terrorism in a Velvet Glove
The Hunger Games
Terrorism in a Velvet Glove
Wednesday, 29 Feb 2012
Joel B. Hunter

2. “[The parent] asked what this book teaches students as far as honor, ethics, and morals. [She] stated there is no lesson in this book except if you are a teenager and kill twenty-three other teenagers, you win the game and your family wins.”
“New Hampshire Parent Challenges ‘The Hunger Games’,” by Lauren Barack, School Library Journal, 19 Oct 2010
February 29, 2012

3. “[W]e need to bring more brains onto the [mobile] device so we can provide more relevant information when needed…based on artificial intelligence. Because that’s the kind of technology that brings the device close to our own reasoning capabilities.”
“How our mobiles became Frankenstein’s monster,” by Andrew Keen, 28 Feb 2012
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

4. Photographs by Zack Arias
Photographs by Zack Arias. “de_VICE: Our mobile ‘addition’,” 29 Feb 2012

5. Three Questions—
Does the technology isolate people from each other? Does it diminish or increase conviviality?
Does it promote social polarization and splintering specialization within the community? What are the social consequences if I am committed to this technology?
Does the acceleration of techniques , their complexity, their power, and so on, enforce social change at a rate that rules out cultural precedents for present behavior?
Tuesday, December 04, 2018