Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power a… - Al Gore

"Reclamações sobre privacidade na internet,marco civil,mas não fazemos a menor ideia do que ocorre por de trás das cortinas:

"...O Worm(vírus de computador mais sofisticado) Stuxnet, a princípio criado em parceria pelos Estados Unidos e por Israel, cumpriu sua missão e invadiu um sistema de controle industrial da Siemens conectado aos motores das centrífugas iranianas responsáveis pelo enriquecimento de urânio, como parte do programa nuclear daquele país. Quando o Stuxnet confirmou que havia encontrado o alvo, transformou-se e começou a alterar a velocidade dos motores das centrífugas , dessincronizando-os a ponto de interromper a atividade.

The feelings of powerlessness are an adaptive function. The child adopts behavior that sets himself or herself up for more of the same. He or she becomes antisocial and stops evoking a feeling of warmth in other people, thus reinforcing the notion of powerlessness. Children then stay on the same pathway. These courses are not set in stone, but the longer a child stays on one course, the harder it is to move on to another. By studying the behavior of adults in later life who had shared this experience of learning powerlessness during infancy, the psychologists who specialize in attachment theory have found that an assumption of powerlessness, once lodged in the brains of infants, turns out to be difficult — though not impossible — to unlearn. Those who grow into adulthood carrying this existential assumption of powerlessness were found to be quick to assume in later life that impulsive and hostile reactions to unmet needs were the only sensible response. Indeed, longitudinal studies conducted by the University of Minnesota over more than thirty years have found that America’s prison population is heavily overrepresented by people who fell into this category as infants. The key difference determining which lesson is learned and which posture is adopted rests with the pattern of communication between the infant and his or her primary caregiver or caregivers, not with the specific information conveyed by the caregiver. What matters is the openness, responsiveness, and reliability, and two-way nature of the communication environment. I believe that the viability of democracy depends upon the openness, reliability, appropriateness, responsiveness, and two-way nature of the communication environment. After all, democracy depends upon the regular sending and receiving of signals — not only between the people and those who aspire to be their elected representatives but also among the people themselves. It is the connection of each individual to the national conversation that

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.