Bill Joy with Introduction by Rob Argento | Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species. | read more |
Introduction by Rob Argento | Don't want to take the chip? Well, the message from the mad scientists of buildinggods.com appears to be "Upgrade or Die!" How the marketing science of sillyConValley(); will con you deeper into The Matrix. And you will even think it's Cool! Now watch this YouTube clip to see for yourself who's really wearing the tin foil hats. | read more |
Johann Hari with Introduction by Rob Argento | About the looming two-tiered Web and how the Web is shaping “our minds and souls in ways we are only beginning to comprehend.” | read more |
By Rob Argento | What the ancient mystics and prophets promised in terms of the coming millennial global community is being fulfilled right before our very eyes. | read more |
Aldous Huxley with Introduction by Rob Argento | In 1932 Aldous Huxley introduced the world to “the much too orderly Brave New World where perfect efficiency left no room for freedom or personal initiative.” I remember first reading about it in high school and thinking “This is so far out; never happen in my lifetime…" | read more |
By Rob Argento | If there is a silver lining to the domestic surveillance story it is this: the hijacking of Silicon Valley mindshare by the corporatacracy (the union of global corporations with big government) could turn out to be the smelling salt that awakens Valley geeks from their boy scout-like subordination to both Big Government and Big Business. "We’re not trading privacy for security; we’re giving up privacy and getting no security in return." — Bruce Schneier | read more |
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Media elite's last gasp effort to save crumbling empire "MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's battle axe…whereby…freedom of e-speech will cease to exist."| read more |
Alex Ansary | Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid?…This is a carefully crafted design. | read more |
Washington Post | Minority Report is coming to you "Imagine a world…where police officers can read the minds of potential criminals and arrest them before they commit any crimes." — Nita Farahany | read more |
Ozan Halici & Jurgen Mayer | Google, like Facebook, might be invading your privacy. In the words of a former CIA agent: "…Google is cooperating under cover with the U.S. government, including the CIA."| read more |
Gwen Olsen | Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor. Watch this fifteen year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry speak out on YouTube. This is not a joke. This is how Big Pharma has become just another self-serving global industry. Join Gwen; fight back. | more |
Rob Argento launched the sillyConValley(); project after an exhilarating career in Silicon Valley spanning three decades. Working in Technical Publications for Valley heavyweights like Microsoft and Oracle he arrived during the Eighties a firm believer in the Information Revolution. But by the dawn of the new millennium he became increasingly dismayed by a steadily rising sense that Her Highness Technology was gradually turning a revolution all Her own. The Valley that once reviled Big Brother in 1984 was chillingly becoming His most loyal ally. | read more |
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Silicon Valley Is a Race Down the Information Highway!
But, a race to where?
E-commerce! Nanotechnology! Quantum computing! Artificial Intelligence, ERP, AI, Gigahertz, Terabytes. From databases to PCs, from semiconductors to Wi-Fi, and from cyberspace to "spiritual machines" Her Highness Technology is racing headlong at a mad pace, drawing the soon-to-be-obsolete world of carbon-based flesh-and-blood humanity into Her dark embrace.
But where is Her Highness taking us? Is She taking us? Or will She, having at last trapped us in a web of deceit, jettison us as just so much Old School baggage, an annoying encumbrance on Her inscrutable addiction to Progress.
Join us on an action-packed electronic safari as we take a wild high-speed cruise down the Information Highway to that misbegotten destiny that now looms large on the horizon of history known as »
