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  • Justice for Sweden

    "And it's why nothing triggers their rage like fundamental critiques of, and especially meaningful opposition to, the institutions of power to which they are unfailingly loyal."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/22/julian-assange-media-contempt

  • Julian Assange’s Misrule of Law

    "And it's why nothing triggers their rage like fundamental critiques of, and especially meaningful opposition to, the institutions of power to which they are unfailingly loyal."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/22/julian-assange-media-contempt

  • Technology’s Mental Frontier

    It seems to me she's referring to a more general, though related, form of "singularity".

    Cf. Wikipedia:
    The specific term "singularity" as a description for a phenomenon of technological acceleration causing an eventual unpredictable outcome in society was coined by mathematician and physicist Stanislaw Ulam as early as 1958, when he wrote of a conversation with John von Neumann concerning the "ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue."

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