ARPANET, the Beginning of the Internet
Libertarians often cite the internet as a case in point that liberty is the mother of innovation. Opponents quickly counter that the internet was a government program, proving once again that markets must be guided by the steady hand of the state. In one sense the critics are correct, though not in ways they understand. The internet indeed began as a typical government program, the ARPANET, designed to share mainframe computing power and to establish a secure military communications network. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now DARPA, of the United States Department of Defense, funded the original network.
Of course the designers could not have foreseen what the (commercial) internet has become. Still, this reality has important implications for how the internet works — and explains why there are so many roadblocks in the continued development of online technologies. It is only thanks to market participants that the internet became something other than a typical government program: inefficient, overcapitalized, and not directed toward socially useful purposes.
Chronological History of Internet Related Events
Orwellian Pokemon Go app released
Pokemon Go app released in most regions of the world by Niantic, an internal start-up of Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantic’s major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps. In just the ...
Cartoonist Fired for Criticizing Monsanto, Dupont
A political illustrator working for a major farm publication in Iowa was fired after his latest piece portrayed Monsanto and other Big Ag companies in a negative light. Farm News political cartoonist Rick Friday received word on Saturday April 30th 2016 that his latest cartoon, entitled “Profit,” would be his last. In the black & white illustration published the previous day, Rick depicted two farmers discussing ...
Draconian UN Agenda 2030 is Adopted by UN Membership: A Recipe for Global Socialism & Totalitatianism
The United Nations and its mostly autocratic member regimes have big plans for your life, your children, your country, and your world. And those plans are not limited to the coercive “climate” agreement recently concluded in Paris. While the establishment media in the United States was hyping ISIS, football, and of course “global warming,” virtually every national government/dictatorship on the planet met at the 70th annual ...
Study: Search Engine Manipulation Effect May Impact Elections by more than 20%
Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California and the former editor of Psychology Today, is one of only a few scholars who have conducted empirical studies on the ability of digital platforms to manipulate opinions and outcomes. In a 2015 study, Epstein and Ronald E. Robertson reported the discovery of what they consider “one of the largest behavioral ...
Newsweek Report: Undersea Cables Transport 99 Percent of International Data
Things at the bottom of the sea: pale fish, manganese nodules, plastic trash and cables. Lots of cables. In our wireless, satellite-broadcasted world, it's easy to forget that most of our electronic communications still run through wires. This includes the vast majority of international calls, text messages and Internet transmissions, which must be ferried through cables that stretch across continents at the bottom of the ocean ...
Cali. AG Kamala Harris Decides Not to Appeal Rogue Judge Ruling to Block a Voter-Approved Law that Restricted Sex-Offender Internet Anonymity
A California law requiring registered sex offenders to turn over a wealth of information related to their internet use to police did not go into effect, thanks to both a Ninth Circuit Court decision and the state's attorney general, who decided not to petition the Supreme Court to examine the ruling. Attorney General Kamala Harris says she will not ask the Supreme Court to let California ...
AGT International’s CEO Mati Kochavi Announces ‘The Brave New World of IoTA’ at the IoT World Forum
Watch AGT International’s CEO Mati Kochavi Announce 'The Brave New World of IoTA' - AGT’s new IoT Analytics platform - at the IoT World Forum, held in Chicago, USA on October 14-16, 2014 ...
Facebook Launched a Secret Experiment with Cornell to Manipulate the Emotions of 689,003 Users
It’s become farcical. Whoever we ask, nobody seems to know anything. Did the study have ethical approval? First the answer was yes. Then it was no. Then it was maybe. Then it was no again. Was it funded by the US army? First the university said yes. Then it said no, without explanation. Why did the scientific journal not state whether the study was ethically approved, ...
Medical Publication: Graphene Bow-Tie Nanoantenna for Wireless Communications in the Terahertz Band
Abstract: The interconnection of nanoscale devices (i.e., nanonodes) within a nanonetwork with existing communication networks, as well as the Internet, defines a new networking paradigm, namely the Internet of Nano-Things. Within this context, the definition of a nanonode requires specific features, especially for what concerns novel nanomaterial and components. Graphene-enabled wireless communications is emerging as a novel paradigm, which has been proposed to implement wireless communications ...
Top Secret Document reveals NSA Allowed Full Access to Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. without Court Order
NSA Whistleblower, Edward Snowden, revealed that most large online data services providers participate in an NSA program to sweep up all user data into NSA computers for "Big Data" analysis and data mining. The companies revealed are Microsoft (9/11/07), Yahoo (3/12/08), Google (1/14/09), Facebook (6/3/09), Paltalk (12/7/09), YouTube (9/24/10), Skype (2/6/11), AOL (3/31/11), Apple (added Oct, 2012—one year after Steve Jobs died, replaced by former IBMer ...
