Tag Archives: technology

21/07/2013 1984 George Orwell | Aldous Huxley Admirable New World | Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | human-rights | internet | Orange is the New Black | politics | society | technology Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: The Big Brother and the Entertainment Manipulation

by Kate Epstein The Snowden leaks and ensuing debates about our government, big data, and privacy have led to more Orwell allusions than I’ve heard in all of my (admittedly post-1984) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant surveillance of twenty-first-century America to the ubiquitous presence of Big Brother in the prescient 1949 novel. […]

17/07/2013 Bradley Manning Defense | Bradley Manning Trial | human-rights | middle-east | Occupy Wall Street | politics | pretrial confinement | society | technology | whistle blowers | Whistleblower Future Feitosa-Santana

Bradley Manning is My Hero

“I want people to see the truth, because without it you cannot make informed decisions as a public” – by  Bradley Manning. “On June 3rd, after more than 3 years of pretrial confinement, military whistle-blower and democracy advocate Bradley Manning will go to trial for “Aiding the Enemy,” a capital offense that could open future whistle-blowers to […]

03/01/2013 apple | Apple Jobs Bio | Jobs Apple Heist | Steve Jobs Biography | Steve Jobs Bipolar | Steve Jobs Jerkness | technology Feitosa-Santana

Steve Jobs, the Life of a Real Jerk

My stomach allowed me to read the biography of Steve Jobs until the pp. 158, and here are some of the reasons: “The Apple raid on Xerox PARC is sometimes described as one of the biggest heists in the chronicles of industry. Jobs occasionally endorsed this view, whit pride. As he once said, “Picasso had […]

24/04/2012 research | science | technology | Transplant | Transplante | Visão Feitosa-Santana

Vision with Cell Transplant in the Retina [Visão com Transplante de Célula na Retina]

It was published in Nature April 18 2012, a study that suggests that transplanting photoreceptors – nerve cells that line the back of the eye sensitive to light – could form the basis of a new treatment to restore sight in people with retinal degenerative diseases. Loss of photoreceptors is the cause of blindness in many human […]