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Is Internet empowering us?
Since the beginning, Internet has been regarded as an instrument of democracy and Internet activism grew over the years. The Net is considered a decentralization tool that gives the power back to small groups and individuals. But are we really empowered…
3 citazioni da: Innernet / Enzodifrennablog / Innernet - segui la conversazioneMechanisms, mysticism and Amazon Mechanical Turk
Human beings have always felt the need to give themselves to something bigger than their individualities: to art, to love, to a cause, to truth, to a guru, to God. When we devote ourselves to something bigger, we transcend ourselves, we go beyond our…
3 citazioni da: Enzodifrennablog / Luca De Biase / Innernet - segui la conversazioneSaving time through technology
One of the most-heard mantras of fans of technology is that it “saves time.” Every new software contains procedures for making things simpler and faster, better than before, automating tasks having longer procedures earlier. All very well. The problem…
2 citazioni da: TUSITALA / TUSITALA / TUSITALA / TUSITALA - segui la conversazioneInternet and the weakening of central (inner) organizations
In the Hindu and tantric Buddhist esoteric traditions, human beings are seen as composed of centers of energy called chakras. Of those, the sixth chakra, called Ajna chakra, is located between the eyes and is often associated with the pineal gland and…
2 citazioni da: TUSITALA / TUSITALA / TUSITALA / TUSITALA - segui la conversazioneWords and silences
Spiritual teachings often affirm that the ultimate knowledge is to be found beyond words and concepts. If silence can convey the next higher level, after silence, words are the medium for consciousness processing. The world of words and concepts can’t…
2 citazioni da: Innernet / Innernet - segui la conversazioneBrains
The global ecological conscience becames unavoidable both because of the obvious environmental devastation and because of the expanded awareness of that through the Internet. Every instance of deforestation, the melting of every glacier, every territory…
2 citazioni da: Innernet / Enzodifrennablog - segui la conversazioneBrain waves facing a screen, and meditation
Meditation and staring at a screen share the same brain waves, but are actually different internal states. It seems that looking at a screen hooks people seducing them with a fake feeling of relaxation through the presence of alpha waves and even lower…
2 citazioni da: Enzodifrennablog / Pensierando - segui la conversazioneThe Tao of Google ranking
When I was a child I believed that somewhere, somebody had the answers to all my questions about the world and about existence. It was because of knowing that sooner or later even I would have access to that knowledge that quietened my cognitive anxiety…
2 citazioni da: Enzodifrennablog / Pensierando - segui la conversazioneVirtual worlds and Maya 2.0
The creation of virtual worlds has an immediate fascination over human beings. Second Life. World of Warcraft and other environments are amongst Internet developing tendencies. The great appeal of these worlds is augmented by the fact that the mind…
2 citazioni da: Enzodifrennablog / Innernet - segui la conversazioneMultitasking to nothing
Even though multitasking has been demonstrated to be counterproductive, in real life and at the computer we tend to do a growing number of activities simultaneously. What people are most scared of is to actually have free time, to experience an…
2 citazioni da: Enzodifrennablog / legione straniera - segui la conversazione
