Victor Billot » technology http://www.victorbillot.com Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Space out http://www.victorbillot.com/2011/09/space-out/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2011/09/space-out/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:55:08 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=361 What does it feel like to fly over Planet Earth?

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2011/09/space-out/feed/ 0 Technology and socialism, continued http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/technology-and-socialism-continued/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/technology-and-socialism-continued/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:47:24 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=299 Following up on Kevin Kelly’s Wired piece on digital socialism, Creative Commons guru Lawrence Lessig worries that use of the “S” word will give the open source nerds a bad rap from the foaming, freakily hard right of American politics.

Fortunately American history has many examples of socialists who I feel proud to share my political philosophy with. … Read more

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It reminds me in an oblique way of a vendor I visited in London’s Brick Lane markets in the 1990s whose stock included piles … Read more

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