TASK(1): Internet empowers people to make a better world

Internet empowers people to make a better world



Internet is the best form of being connected with people of different countries that you would never meet because of the distance.
Technology of today helps us fins any information on any topic and even to enjoy their particular uses.
These advantages became a problem when humanity manipulate their uses to make a personal profit of it.

I think Internet it's not the problem, but humanity.

Mankind tends to radical extremes,  and that means that, in the case of technology, tends to equating all its uses so that at the same time, without knowing it, they are destroying the product itself.
The big problem of the mankind is that we could not arrive at a perfect balance. A balance that enables us to enjoy the dinternet and uses of technology in general without this becoming the only priority in our life.
Therefore, you realize that the title of the editorial is totally acceptable and logic:
Internet can help people to create a better world, but the real question is whether humans can create a better world with technology.
Therefore, the question is not whether the Internet could help to improve our conditions,
But if we're able to manipulate this technology and transform it into a good deed for us.

YOUR-SAY(3): Feeling like an elf in an absinthe cup

Feeling like an elf in an absinthe cup:

 

The first time I saw them was in the back seat of the car of Bobby The True, driving toward the neighborhood about three in the morning.
The True saw the look in the middle of the night. The electronic music of the car helped making the moment even more specially weird than before.

Absinthe's Green pearls were reflected in my eyes, and I almost felt the taste of the psychedelic potion through my tongue, and then in my esophagus and stomach, feeling sparking bubbles tapping me furiously inside me.
The quake moved by all the layers of the epidermis, bristling the hair of the most superficial skin of my body.

I felt the peculiar odor of the alcohol pass through my nose, and then passing through my lungs.
The lungs' blood gotten the smell, and that blood went through my head making the block of my mind because he don't recognized the indescribable aroma.

The shock of the first minutes waned when I realized that the most interesting of all was not knowing how to describe those absinthe's green pearls that appeared in front of me.

And curiosity took over my body, examining everything I saw:
Green stretched before my eyes.
And I could not stop swimming at the mossy river; I could not stop stroking that colorful frog of intense green; I could not stop to observe the different green shades that moved as a loop in which I couldn't go out.

And I felt an inmense admiration for that perfection that stretched ahead of mine.
And enthusiasm at being able to participate in that beauty as a secondary character.
And this enthusiasm was seen in my eyes: the green potion with its hieratic smile wanted me closer at me.

And when I approached slowly, I felt my body sparking: bubbes smote at all my skin.
And I turned green.

YOUR-SAY(2): Describing a saeglópur

Describing Sæglópur



A woman is watching the calm blue sea while a skinny silhouette is dancing through the water.
Immersing slowly in the depths while the wind touches the hair of the woman with the imperceptible colorful dress.
The skinny silhouette disappears slowly.

Within the water, everything is different: the previous tranquility is transformed into a desperation when she sees the darkness of the underwater world.
Even so, it is beautiful.

The girl moves her skinny legs, swimming trying to endure a breathing that is running low.
Some monstruous and blackish tentacles coming out of nowhere trap the girl's foot.
But she can escape.

She not stop swimming even knowing that she may not go very far away... The seagrass trap her.
She looks panicked until she tired her body, feeling her heavy breathing.
She fades.

Suddenly, a light appears through the darkness: it's a diver illuminated by the light of the moon.

He save the girl and takes her to the surface, near the woman with the imperceptible colorful dress, who this time jumps into the water to retrieve the skinny silhouette who previously ventured safely to the sea.


Do you think that is a metaphorical video?

YOUR-SAY(1): Born slippy...

Born slippy:

The first time I listened to this song was at Emma's house.
We're lying on a bed covered with clothers, cigarettes, socks and some unidentified entity, smoking bored, speaking of weird thoughts and paranoias.
Emma decided to watch the movie Transpotting because i had never seen it before, and I was so ill of everyone saying "that was like a transpotting scene" or "I feel like a transpotting character".
So, we decided to watch the popular movie.

The movie changed the boring afternoon by another focused on mental concentration and reflection.
Mixed with black humor and irony (details that did increase the quality of the movie).

The story featured a multitude of complex characters involved in a web of drugs and search of identity. But above all, search of individual happiness.

The song of Underworld appeared in the last minutes of the story, with the long monologue of the principal character.
A monologue that is the key to understand that the film has a cyclical external structure equal.
But at this time, the character has been changing in this society that appears to be the same.

The individual change in a society that will not change her course ever.
The importance of individual happiness on a cruel society that will not realise their mistakes although you do numerous "hunger vagues"...

Go countercurrent doesn't change society.
Go countercurrent makes no happier.

NEWS(6): Picture-news behind the world

BBC: Week in pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20265632

I our day to day we don't realize the social injustices that give out in our world.
We live in a daily rutine, without thinking about the life of the others (who cares?)
The images that are displayed in the link are only of one week in different places of different countries and states.
What would happen if we join all relevant images of one year?

When you look at the pictures, you saw injustice, falsety, cruelty and machism also.

The image of one asian hotel guide girl that was looking at a paramilitary police with admiration,
a smog covering a demonstration of russian nationalists, the damages that caused the Sandy in New Jersey, ....


But when I looked all of this photos, I stay in one:
A image of riders walking throught the ocean while the sunset.

This make me smile a little bit after watch all this bad photos that reflected the world crisi...

After all, there are small moments of happiness.
The only thing is to find them.

NEWS(5): a clone to feel... oneself?

BBC: "Build clones to relieve us from boredom"
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120904-build-clones-to-relieve-boredom?selectorSection=science-environment

I was really disgusted to be part of the human race
when I read this headline
and the question that I went through my mind was:
is it really necessary to make a clone?
I started to laugh the question since the answer was totally obvious
a totally ridiculous answer for a pathetic question, I think...
I don't know who was the enlightened that one day, after drink his cup of coffee on the morining, thought:
"Hey! let's go to clone ourselves! It will be so cool"

I don't think this have no utility.
I think that if they do that is to show to that
the humans are so powerful and superior than the other species.
and the only thing they are showing is, once again, his stupidity.

NEWS(4): "Charismnazist"

BBC: His dark charisma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20237437


If always felt so surprised when I think of all the people who admired Adolf Hitler, the dictator of one of the most cruel and sadist movement that exist in the world: the nacism.

The truth is that Adolf Hitler was an intelligent man. A bad man inside his brain, but also intelligent. (If always think that there are a differences between bad and mad men)

Adolf Hitler was noted for his ease of making effective speeches for masses.

He always arrived late so people got nervous and had more desire to listen to his speeches.

And then, when he finally arrived, he looked to the public and dared to make a few minutes of silence after the people quiet (there was a good method for people to really believe he was going to say very important things...)
He began to speak very slowly, stopping occasionally to observe his audience. He also talked very low so people can focus more on listening his speech.

As the speech progressed, he began to turn up the volume and his words became stronger and more forceful.

This attitude was broadcast in people watching it and  they actually believed that he felt what he said.
And that he would really save Germany....

The result was wrong.