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“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with”, Marshall McLuhan said on The Best of Ideas on CBC Radio in 1967. As with many of McLuhan’s other quotes, this one […]

“How the Internet Changes Our Reality” proclaims a vertical banner in front of the building of the Church of the Resurrection transformed into a ultra-modern Umweltforum venue hosting the Barcamp held by Future Challenges, the Club of Rome and the Berlin Institute for Internet and Society. Ironically speaking, one might say […]

Water, or the lack of it, has been a prominent issue in the Australian state of Victoria for the last decade and a half. Year after year, as drought ravaged the south east of the continent Victorian dams dropped dramatically, falling below 30% three times. This unprecedented dry spell necessitated […]

No Toilet! No Bride! Did I hear right? Yes! A toilet might be just a basic facility taken for granted in the western world but it’s quite a forthright statement and courageous demand in the context of rural and semi urban India. And it’s a demand now being put forward […]

While the iron fisted approach in fighting and preventing so-called terrorism may be welcomed by the many survivors and family members of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, the legacy of this event has resulted in the suffering of Khmer Rouge refugees who have been facing deportation from the US […]

Occupy Wall Street is a different type of movement created in revolt against the capitalist economy which has spawned an enormous economic recession. Although it does not have a direct relation to the country, it seems as if Pakistan’s soil is also ready for a revolution like OWS. Like the […]