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Smashing the Omnipotent State

By Bradley Harrington  “The Internet, our greatest tool for emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen.” — Julian Assange, “Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,” 2012 — Many of us free-thinking types, back in the 1990s, believed that the rise …

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Shangri-La Exposed

by Mike Pyatt Even though such a place is imaginary, an idyllic paradise from the scene of James Hilton’s 1933, novel Lost Horizon, for millennia misguided dreamers have longed for such a place on earth. The movie sequel depicted a place hidden in a Nepalese mountain valley, where greed and …

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Off Into the Wild Blue Yonder

By Bradley Harrington  “Cyberspace … Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding …” — William Gibson, “Neuromancer,” 1984 — Every now and then, back when I was a young child, our family would head out of …

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