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  1. Another riveting installment in the "Tech Brilliance" series: how to change your background. 🙄 Because clearly, conquering the art of desktop wallpaper is the path to #enlightenment in the information age. 🎨✨
    yoavg.github.io/eternal/ #TechBrilliance #DesktopWallpaper #ArtOfBackground #InformationAge #HackerNews #ngated

  2. Audre Lorde famously stated, 'The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.' Basic cultural skills and fundamental education provide the means to develop one's own tools, articulate ideas, and challenge the master—ultimately dismantling the master's house using both personal and borrowed tools. A lack of tools and knowledge renders one dependent, akin to servitude—an especially critical issue in the #informationage.
    #opinion #unschooling

  3. From Hieroglyphs to #Hyperlinks: Why #Knowledge #Management Is as Old as Time and Not a New Phenomenon

    Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is often portrayed and perceived as a modern phenomenon, especially in the context of the so-called #digitalage and the #informationage. However, the roots of PKM are ancient, extending back to the earliest forms of human communication and record-keeping.

    📚 Full blog post: notelab.hypotheses.org/1645

    Cc @davidlohner #notelab #notemaking #highereducation

  4. Here Europe is trying to force fit 21st century work into a late-19th century regulatory framework. ft.com/content/1d2ca0e1-b3f0-4

    Instead of retrogressive policies, we need to think about new governance frameworks that would unlock economic potential while providing workers with appropriate social benefits.

    #GigEconomy #PlatformEconomy #InformationAge #Regulation

  5. I think I have discovered why the Harappans, Angkor (&c) collapsed without leaving any archaeological/historical record.

    They invented some form of social media.

    #SocialMedia #Politics #InformationAge #Endarkenment

  6. “By the way, much as I love bookstores and booksellers, we sit in the second rung beneath public libraries and public librarians. They’re the true heroes of our industry, and they don’t sell a single book. They’re sitting in there doling them out for free.”
    Barnes & Noble CEO #JamesDaunt in a #Decoder interview with #NilayPatel (#TheVerge) in 2023.

    Yours truly, for a number of years:
    #Librarians are the superheroines and superheroes of the #InformationAge.”

    theverge.com/23642104/barnes-a

  7. CyberMDX raises $20M to help improve medical device security - Healthcare security startup CyberMDX has raised $20 million in its latest round of fundraising, the ... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #pitangoventurecapital #computersecurity #informationage #medicaldevices #medicaldevice #cyberwarfare #newyork #pitango #europe #sham #tc