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Rather coincidentally I’ve run into a couple of indicators in the past week that the meme (i.e., the idea) that life might be extended indefinitely is gaining some traction. The first was an article in Wired titled “The Fight to End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding.” That leads to a series of interesting videos from the recent conference at UCLA on ...

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

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In 2.0 Attitude my theme was the clash between traditional standards for authority and “expertise” and the much broader, populaist standards for knowledge that have emerged with web 2.0 and social media.  So an article in this week’s Technology Review titled “It’s not a revolution if nobody loses” that covers some of the same ground got my attention. Clay Shirky ...