Link Souffle

A few items:

Maverick academic Philip Zimbardo says we are all capable of evil. Is he right?

No argument here.

via Schneier on Security
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Cubans Line Up for Cell Phone Service

Watch Cuba closely. It's the new frontier. Because they're pretty much starting from scratch, you'll likely see some interesting technological leap-frogging; straight from the 1950's to the 2010's.

They're blogging and Twittering, too.
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Ray Kurzweil: Making the World a Billion Times Better

Ray Kurzweil is one the the few future thinkers that is persistently optimistic.
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Water, the new oil

Melanie Swan hits us with a real poser: how are we going to manage the world's water situation? She has a few ideas.

Here's another one.

Back in the late seventies, Robin Williams used to joke, "Whenever I want to spend a dollar on a bottle of water, I drink Perrier." People roared with laughter. I did, too. The thought of paying for water was absurd back then.
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How we got from one to 162 million websites on the internet.

PDQ

via Rocketboom
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Ten weirdest computers

Maybe not so weird in a few years or decades or so.

Although, I suspect that Glooper and Mouldy computers will remain weird for some time to come.
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