We are now moving towards and perhaps will be living in “THE INFORMATION CAGE.” Like a reoccurring nightmare that we explain away only to find out we did not quite explain it away, George Orwell still haunts us…
Wikileaks is just the tip of the iceberg. And information security could send thousands of people to the Siberia equivalent of going to jail for talking, reading, or sharing information…. The lines are being drawn and stripes could be in your future…. The information age is now washing over us like a waterfall and we don’t remember or fully understand how it got his way… it is omnipresent, omnipotent, information that is… and at last, it has become dangerous….
The Policy ThinkShop recommends reading Matt Taibbi’s preliminary review and admonition … Listener, reader, sharer, be ware!!!
“I went yesterday to a screening of We Steal Secrets, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s brilliant new documentary about Wikileaks. The movie is beautiful and profound, an …”
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May 23, 2013 • 5:21 am 0
The Curse of Reading and Forgetting : The New Yorker
For those of you who visit our blog (The Policy ThinkShop) regularly, you must have noticed that we often promote articles from the New Yorker magazine. Recently a well written article caught the eye of one of our researchers which was written by a young man (IAN CROUCH) about the pleasures and vagaries of reading. We thought it interesting because the writing seems mature and well thought out and greatly belies the relatively young age of the author. This juxtaposition of age and naiveté against the well written ideas and use of language by this otherwise young and relatively inexperienced fellow calls into question the veracity of the magazine as a source of reliable information, wit and wisdom for the more discerning reader.
Are we being naive ourselves because this article and its author’s product hint at entertainment and literary skill? They seem to do so without the import and weight that time and wisdom bring to the often important weekly topics that are assigned to young writes today. These are seemingly hurried assignments by magazine Execs that have to be creative and prolific at a rate only made possible by perhaps young and creative kids passing as the wise and testy intellectuals of yesterday’s paper media.
Read the article below and come back to the Policy ThinkShop
and tell us what you think…
“Part of my suspicion of rereading may come from a false sense of reading as conquest. As we polish off some classic text, we may pause a moment to think of ourselves, spear aloft, standing with one foot up on the flank of the slain beast. Another monster bagged. It would be somehow less heroic, as it were, to bend over and check the thing’s pulse. But that, of course, is the stuff of reading—the going back, the poring over, the act of committing something from the experience, whether it be mood or fact, to memory. It is in the postmortem where we learn how a book …”
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