Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for December 5, 2013.
Nelson Mandela, one of the most iconic figures of our time, has died. He was 95 years old.
Mandela had not appeared publicly since 2010 when he attended the World Cup final in Johannesburg, the first held on the African continent. He remained a paragon of dignity and humanism, even as he quietly spent his final years in his childhood home in the nation's Eastern Cape Province.
Born on …
Future Imperfect: The Warning Signs from Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns the Future?"
Months before the words "NSA," "PRISM," and "Edward Snowden" dominated newspaper headlines, Jaron Lanier's Who Owns the Future? warned us about the amount of personal information we have floating around the web. The truth is that while companies and the government are interested in our data at a macro level, the real danger is not being more vigilant about our personal …
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