tabletology 2000-1800 BCE The cuneiform on this tablet on display at the Spurlock Museum is early legalese. 1700s Slates put a premium on memorization. 1888 Paper mill employee cut, ruled, and bound reject sheets to create the first legal pad. 1987 Star Trek The Next Generation introduces the PADD—Personal Access Display Device. 1993 Apple MessagePad [...]
Do advanced technologies make life more secure, or do they expose humanity to escalating dangers?
Lost in cyberspace by Hans Atom
This video always gets me excited…in an academic sort of way, of course.
Today, information is architecture and urban planning by other means, framing and contouring the relative motility of social intercourse. While the city remains a locus of this staging and dissimulation of security, it is supplanted by other network media that have assumed some of its traditional mandates. Now highly evolved species of de Fourcroy’s tableau [...]
Chapter I They came separately, but close together: computer intrusions from the Mideast casing U.S. dams/electric systems; then, scientists’ stark letter to President Bush that warned of America’s “grave risk.”
For this project, the behavior of concern will be cyberwar. The difficulties of defining cyberspace notwithstanding, cyberwar is legally, politically, and socially complex. War might be ancient, but cyberwar is not. This disconnection creates difficulties for scholars, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers and civilians.[1. Brenner, Susan. 2009. Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State. New [...]
In the world of computer science, cyberspace is a unique term because unlike most computer terms, it does not have a standard, objective definition. This section introduces cyberspace and the ongoing difficulties of defining it. For some it is a conceptual individual space, and for others, cyberspace is a product of social interaction.[1. Strate, Lance. [...]
War is ancient; cyberwar is 24|7. Within that disconnect of history is the absolute of disruption, the moment where disarmed subjects of power meet objects of their domination.
