“The Greater Reset,” an annual conference created by the activist Derrick Broze, is now in its fourth year and is being held this week from January 18th-22nd. The presentations are online and free to view in real time as well as taped and made available for later viewing; past presentations can be found on youtube and odysee.
Take Back Our Tech on Day 4 (the 21st) should be of particular interest to librarians. From the program description: Technology – like all tools – is a double-edged sword that has the potential to spy and control, as well as empower and liberate. For day 4 of Co-Creation we will focus on digital communication technologies that provide encrypted methods for communicating. We will also examine tools which could finally bring about the original vision of a decentralized internet.
I learned a lot about Web3 from watching the 2021 presentation The Digital Revolution. While I am somewhat skeptical regarding the promises of Web3, I feel it is important for librarians to stay abreast of these developments, as they will surely impact the work that they do.
One of the sponsors this year is the decentralized search engine Presearch; in the promotional email the product description states that “when you search with Presearch your searches are anonymized and routed through a network of like-minded volunteers,” a concept that seems worthy of further investigation.
Top image: February 4th, 2012 Protest anti ACTA in Ljubljana (3).jpg/ Wikimedia Commons
Reading this made me think first of authors like those represented here: https://matadornetwork.com/bnt/10-most-influential-spiritual-books-of-the-past-50-years/ . Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Rhonda Byrne and such. Then I thought about how librarians work to protect people's privacy and information rights on the computer terminals in libraries. It is not uncommon to hear about library patrons wanting to use the computers anonymously. Information access and privacy rights are definitely a hot topic.
Reading this made me think first of authors like those represented here: https://matadornetwork.com/bnt/10-most-influential-spiritual-books-of-the-past-50-years/ . Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Rhonda Byrne and such. Then I thought about how librarians work to protect people's privacy and information rights on the computer terminals in libraries. It is not uncommon to hear about library patrons wanting to use the computers anonymously. Information access and privacy rights are definitely a hot topic.
Speaking of spiritual books, I am interested in checking out this one: https://colin-jordan524.medium.com/review-ora-nadrich-time-to-awaken-changing-the-world-with-conscious-awareness-book-c29b78be9585