Social Change

One of the signs of the ever expanding role of the Internet in political life is the issuing of press credentials to bloggers for the political conventions, both Demo and Repub. The NYTimes has an article about this first set. Evidently some so-called “professional” journalists see this as further corruption of the profession. And…blogs evidently are becoming a more significant ...

American Demographics, a publication that measures the whimsies of populations segments and doles out marketing advice, put out an interesting June edition that focused mainly on the divisions that mark US society. One article, “The Second Coming of Age,” was about what’s ahead with the aging of the Baby Boom generation. Frankly, it’s not a particularly pretty sight. The sardonic ...

Heck, it’s not just those tykes in Japan that are getting tracking devices. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64194,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 State to Shadow Parolees With GPS New career for the future: Tracking Specialist. Reminds me of those old cowboy movies where the Indian guide would jump down off his horse, look at the hoofprints in the dirt and say, “Um, two men pass this way three ...

Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped – silicon.com The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school. The tags will be read by readers installed in ...