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Can A Supercomputer Predict Revolutions?
Shades of Minority Report, anyone? Singularity Hub reports on the use of supercomputers to mine millions of news reports in order to more accurately predict political instability. It can’t quite read the future, yet, technically speaking.
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A N00b’s Guide To Safer Regime Change
Tech-centric human rights group Access has published a handy primer for those looking to participate in a Middle Eastern or North African revolution (and keep their identities private while at it). You know – those secret police are arseholes.
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Libya Protestors Using Photoshop To Make Caricatures Of Gaddafi
Photoshop! Great for airbrushing models in magazine! Also great to draw up hilarious caricatures of a crazy and troubled dictator! This is a wonderful picture of Anti-Gaddafi protestors using their photoshop skills to cartoonise Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. It was taken inside a burnt down state security building. [BoingBoing]
Forget Facebook And Twitter: Libyan Protestors Aided By Dating Site
In what might be the most surprising piece of evidence to emerge from the current Libya uprising, is how male protestors posed as women on a Muslim dating website called ‘Mawada’, in order to sow the first seeds of the movement towards democracy.
See The Egyptian Revolution Explode On Twitter
Whether you’re calling it a TWITTER REVOLUTION or just a revolution revolution, there’s no doubt social media had helped boot Mubarak out of power in Egypt. This visualisation shows how #jan25 tweets (and retweets) boomed as the movement accelerated. [CoDesign]
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Can Complexity Theory Explain Egypt’s Crisis?
Civilization, goes an old maxim, is four meals away from barbarism – once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. That could mean trouble for the political uprising in Egypt. It may also be what triggered it.
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