Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere Review

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(More customer reviews)As a teacher of middle schoolers, I am amazed when watching kids use their cell-phones and other assorted gizmos. Teenagers, more than most of us, have an insatiable need to connect with others--literally and virtually--it is a constant in their lives. Steven's book helped me put their behavior (as well as my own and others) into a much larger frame--one that connects the deepest human needs (and the ancient ways of meeting these) with today's technology.
An acknowledgement, I am Steven's sister-in-law!

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Digital Dharma has something for everyone. It is for technology experts and yoga fanatics alike. Whether you're simply seeking the spiritual, already practicing a spiritual tradition, or a Body-Mind-Spirit reader with ambivalent feelings about your computer and cell phone, this book will guide you on the path toward a new consciousness. Similarly, novices of the digital world, media junkies, and technology "utopians" who understand at some level there is much yet to be learned from the Infosphere, will all find intriguing, useful material here.

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Who's Watching You?: The Chilling Truth about the State, Surveillance, and Personal Freedom (Conspiracy Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Do you find yourself hopelessly paranoid about government bureaucracies, the corporate Gestapo, eyes in the sky, or even our addiction to social networking sites? Yeah, neither did I. Who's watching you? by Mick Farren and John Gibb is a disturbing exposé about our technology driven world that will make you think twice about performing the simplest of tasks. This book covers everything from facial recognition, corporate data mining, and biomimetrics, all the way up to the potential power of Google as an A.I. entity and the already robust control of the ECHELON interception network. If the idea of simply being watched doesn't bother you because you believe in the now trite expression, "If you have nothing to hide, there's nothing to worry about," then maybe the possibility of mandatory retinal scans and virtual slave collars for all world citizens doesn't concern you either. But for the rest of us who prefer to not be herded like senseless sheep this book is definitely worth taking a look at,,, while you still can, that is.

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The threat of terrorism and the corresponding climate of fear encouraged by the government have together eroded our freedom to live our lives in peace and quiet away from the prying eyes of hidden cameras. The government is tightening its grip on us by watching and recording what we do. They are doing this because they know they can and because knowledge is power. But exactly who are "they" and why do they want to know so much about us? This book includes chilling, accurate, and up-to-date descriptions of the methods the government (and private company proxies) use to watch us.

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WWW: Wake (WWW Trilogy) Review

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(More customer reviews)Robert J. Sawyer's "www.Wake" opens up a few cans of worms and leaves us with a cliffhanger at the end so we can all speculate on what happens next. Without giving too much away, a brilliant but blind teenage girl is enlisted by a Japanese scientist for experimental eye surgery and when it is all done, a lot of interesting things occur. Meanwhile on the other side of the country there is a gorilla painting pictures of its caretaker and in China there is a suspicous avian flu outbreak that results in the Chinese government covering up some drastic action it took to deal with it. I expect Book Two will deal with these secondary issues in a bit more detail and find a way to link them to the main story.
Sawyer's writing style is approachable even for those who are not big Sci-Fi readers. Certainly the science is there (and accurate) but his books tend to deal more with the culture of the day and the way the characters respond to that while the science flutters by in the background. This was an enjoyable start, a fairly quick read, and I am looking forward to the next one.

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