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Biometrics is nothing knew, but one day it will become mandatory. Each person on earth will receive a Universal Biometric ID, which will be tied to all their information. Without your Digital ID you will not be able to use the internet, pay your taxes, open a bank account, get your prescription medicine, or travel. Your ID will be tied to a Social Credit Score System, which will keep track of your Carbon Footprint—your Personal Carbon Allowance. You will be completely tracked and monitored. You will be punished for breaking any of the rules/narratives, so you’ll need to be a good global citizen. What is monitored will be controlled. Weaponized data: they will use your data against you. Biometrics: the road to your digital enslavement. Biometric data surveillance under the skin, the way of the future. Convenience over safety, and safety over freedom.
You are being socially engineered with the use of behavioural and social sciences. They are slowly leading you in the direction they want you to go. So embrace your vaccine passport, your QR code—the first step towards their digital ID ecosystem/prison. They are directing you down a path to a Biometric Microchip ID—the first step into transhumanism. Central Bank Digital Currencies will lead you to the Mark of the Beast.
Plug yourself into the smart-grid, with your smart-chip, tracked in your smart-city, in your smart-home, in your virtual smart-world, enjoying your smart-prison, watched by smart-surveillance, on smart-networks, gathering smart-data, analyzed by smart-AI, using smart-computing. You will love your smart-appliances, smart-electronics, smart-wallets, smart-money, smart-cars, smart-assistants, smart this and smart that, until you are a smart-slave in their smart-prison system—their smart-gulag archipelago. You will bow to the smart-image, of the smart-idol, with your smart-tattoo, known as the smart-mark, given to you by the false prophet, of the false christ, of the false god.
Once you take the Mark of the Beast your conscience will be overridden, and you will be programmed to follow the Beast. Just as Esau sold his birthright, you will sell your conscience—you will sell your soul! Don’t be deceived by satan, or his coming antichrist and false prophet.
“And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who did mighty miracles on behalf of the beast—miracles that deceived all who had accepted the mark of the beast and who worshiped his statue. Both the beast and his false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.”
“I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.”
“For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.”
“And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people.”
“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”
“Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.”
Looking east towards 63rd & Halsted Streets, this vast expanse will be the future home of a Whole Foods store. A Whole Foods in Englewood, are they nuts? No, they are not...
By building a store where others fear to tread, the chain not only earns the undying gratitude of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, it also gets a prime location in "New Englewood." Remember, the "smart money" always goes in early, precisely when there is absolutely no hope that things will ever get better. If you wait until the neighborhood is 100^% safe, you will pay top dollar. Go in now, and you will also get a voice in the future of Englewood. You can help shape its character as a vibrant, diverse community, instead of a corporate collection of cookie-cutter condos and town-homes.
In the midst of all the desolation and squalor in the Englewood of today, there are plenty of signs that people are betting on Englewood's rebirth as a paradise for Young Urban Pioneers: Yuppies. They have even given it a new name: New City. So, forget all that negative stuff you've heard about crime and poverty in Englewood, just focus on a wonderful new day in New City....right?
Don't kid yourself, things are pretty rough in Englewood as it is today, but, if you feel that frontier spirit surging through your veins - and you have no school-age children, and don't plan to have any in the next five years or so - come on down and have a look. You may be able to get in at the ground floor with a graystone mini-mansion or a solid brick two-flat for pennies on the dollar...
Screenshot of Smart Money's "Map of the Market", the day AFTER the bailout proposal failed. Yesterday this map was all red, now it's (mostly) green.
See the blog post Back to materiality for background.
( Take from StudioE9's Paul Johnson's Article "The Viral Loop Widget" in Publishers Weekly
Facebook may have 300 million users, but that doesn’t mean that these social digerati are easy to reach—which explains why advertising on the so-called social Web so far has largely been a dud. So when journalist Adam Penenberg approached StudioE9 to create an online marketing campaign for his new book, Viral Loop, we recognized a unique opportunity: we would design and implement a proof of concept for his book. In essence, set out to create a viral loop around Viral Loop.
We settled on a three-pronged approach involving a Facebook application (a widget), an iPhone app and a Web site. Taken together they create a powerful synergy, promoting Viral Loop across multiple platforms, yet they also function independently. The goal: to create multiple paths to learning about and hopefully buying the book. After all, every time a user sees or hears the words “viral loop,” we extend the brand. These three components take the idea a step further by having users spread it for us. To get it, you have to give. We knew we had to offer users something they would like so much they’d willingly share it with their friends. Then, our users would become de facto Viral Loop marketers.
Facebook Application
Our Viral Loop widget for Facebook takes advantage of the fact that users of social networks tend to be both committed participants and contributors: in other words, their interactions create value for the networks they use. If Facebook had only three million users, it wouldn’t have the stratospheric valuation it does with 300 million. Our widget determines how much a user is worth to Facebook by collecting data on how active users are, who their friends are, how much influence they have, how popular their profile page is—plus, how much Facebook is worth these days. At the time of this writing, a rough estimate put Facebook at a value of more than $6 billion.
When users launch the widget, they tap into a complex algorithm that crunches all the data. Once they learn their dollar value to Facebook, a message is posted to their newsfeed, which further markets the app. They can also find out what their friends are worth by inviting them to try it. The more friends they persuade, the more influence they have and the more they add to their own value. By placing a dollar value on social network activity, we offer incentives to users to raise their level of participation and, more to the point for us, spread the widget.
A real-time leader board published on the Fast Company Web site (fastcompany.com) tracks the dollar values of Facebook’s top 20 Web celebrities. Barack Obama, for example, can be worth up to $2 million to Facebook, beating out Ashton Kutcher, Roger Federer and God. Alongside that list run the top 20 Viral Loop widget users and their dollar values, comparing the values of Viral Loop application users with the most popular celebrities on Facebook.
iPhone App
We took Viral Loop to a mobile platform with the Viral Loop iPhone app. It’s a predictions market wrapped in a game. Those who download the app through their iPhones, iTunes store or from viralloop.com are awarded $500 in Viral Loop currency to “bet” on predictions based, in large part, on the book. A prediction might be “Google will buy Twitter by year’s end” or “Facebook will amass half a billion users by Jan. 1, 2010,” or “PayPal’s revenues will surpass eBay’s by July 2010.” The app tabulates each participant’s vote—either thumbs up or down. You can “short” a prediction like you would stock, too, and discussion boards at viralloop.com help users keep tabs on all the action.
The iPhone app also ties in with the widget. Users can transfer their Facebook dollar values to bet on predictions or buy the right to post their own prediction that other users can bet on. If a user runs out of currency, they can raise more by inducing others to download the widget or increasing their level of social network activity, or by buying the book through a special link at viralloop.com that leads to a major bookseller. They can then transfer that “money” to the iPhone app.
Viral Loop Web Site
A Web marketing plan exists at viralloop.com, which hosts Penenberg’s blog, a description of the book, reviews and links to booksellers, as well as exclusive q&as with people who appear in the book’s pages—including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe and tech icon Marc Andreessen. There are also pages devoted to the widget and iPhone apps with comment threads.
But it doesn’t stop there. On the home-page is a tree with several viral loop companies branching out, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, RockYou and Bebo. Click on Facebook and pictures of its three founders pop up. Hit edit and you can participate in a wiki to add your own information or provide links and commentary. The result is a constantly evolving site with the potential to become a valuable online resource. And like the widget and iPhone app, it depends on users to grow and spread.
Related Press:
Wall Street Journal "Digits": How Much Are You Worth to Facebook?"
blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/24/how-much-are-you-worth-to...
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Crunchgear/Techcrunch (reposted on All Things Digital): "Using Facebook and the iPhone to Promote Something Called a Book."
www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/18/viral-loop-using-facebook-a...
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Wall Street Journal "Deal Journal": "Valuing Web Media: For the Rest of Us, It’s Like Fantasy Football"
blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/09/18/valuing-web-media-for-the-...
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Mediaite: "Viral Loop: For Facebook, Michael Jackson Is More Valuable Than God"
www.mediaite.com/online/viral-loop-for-facebook-michael-j...
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Mediaite: "What Portion of Facebook's Billions Are BEcause of You?"
www.mediaite.com/online/what-portion-of-facebooks-billion...
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Fast Company Leader Board (lists the top 20 users of the Viral Loop widget and the top 20 celebrities on Facebook): www.fastcompany.com/blog/adam-penenberg/penenberg-post-0
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Viral Loop excerpt in October's Fast Company magazine: www.fastcompany.com/magazine/139/loop-de-loop.html
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My exclusive interview with Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg: www.fastcompany.com/blog/adam-penenberg/penenberg-post/fa...
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www.smartmoney.com/spending/deals/Seven-Smart-Books-The-B...
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www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&a...
Die Systemlemminge werden nach der Währungsreform fragen: "Aber was soll ich denn nun mit meinem Geld machen?". Hier schon mal die verbildlichte Antwort.
Dieses Bild darf unter Nennung dieses Streams frei benutzt werden. :-)
The use of the typically green/red colored treemaps to depict the stock market exchange is not particularly new, especially for those who know the now famous SmartMoney Map of the Market. However, FinViz.com takes the more traditional flat treemap version one step further by introducing a 2.5-dimensional perspective [finviz.com] as well as a geographical overview [finviz.com] version.
The height of the fake 3D blocks depicts the relative change in stock market price. The world map version gives a somewhat quick glance of the actual global financial state.
300 West 57 Street, New York, NY 10019. Home of Cosmopolitan ,Country Living
Esquire ,Food Network ,Good Housekeeping ,Harper's BAZAAR, House Beautiful ,Marie Claire ,Oprah, Popular Mechanics, Redbook, Seventeen,SmartMoney,
Town & Country and Veranda magazines, ESPN, A&E, History Channel, and San Francisco Chronicle. Designed by Sir Norman Foster and built 2004-06, original 1928 base building by Joseph Urban.
Dispositivo da tavolo RFID & NFC per smart payment, abilitato alle transazioni monetarie Tag&Go con smartphone NFC, carte di credito contactless e smart card a contatto
300 West 57 Street, New York, NY 10019. Home of Cosmopolitan ,Country Living
Esquire ,Food Network ,Good Housekeeping ,Harper's BAZAAR, House Beautiful ,Marie Claire ,Oprah, Popular Mechanics, Redbook, Seventeen,SmartMoney,
Town & Country and Veranda magazines, ESPN, A&E, History Channel, and San Francisco Chronicle. Designed by Sir Norman Foster and built 2004-06, original 1928 base building by Joseph Urban.
A Torino, per raccontare l'RFID & NFC per una smart urban life: tra gli scenari descritti, ticketing, gestione smart dei rifiuti, smart parking e servizi ai cittadini
300 West 57 Street, New York, NY 10019. Home of Cosmopolitan ,Country Living
Esquire ,Food Network ,Good Housekeeping ,Harper's BAZAAR, House Beautiful ,Marie Claire ,Oprah, Popular Mechanics, Redbook, Seventeen,SmartMoney,
Town & Country and Veranda magazines, ESPN, A&E, History Channel, and San Francisco Chronicle. Designed by Sir Norman Foster and built 2004-06, original 1928 base building by Joseph Urban.
A Torino, per raccontare l'RFID & NFC per una smart urban life: tra gli scenari descritti, ticketing, gestione smart dei rifiuti, smart parking e servizi ai cittadini
Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg
Thinking Machine 4, 2005
table, computer, touchscreen monitor, custom software
Thinking Machine 4 -– an artificial intelligence programme – explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Visitors are invited to play chess against each other or against the computer. Simply touch the “new game” button on the screen and start playing by dragging pieces on the chess board. To play against the computer, wait 30 seconds for it to move. During play, the computer creates a map from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the programme decides the best move. The curves show potential moves –often several turns in the future –considered by the computer. Orange curves are moves by black; green curves are ones by white. The brighter the curve, the better the move (in the computer’s mind). Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.
Martin Wattenberg's work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. He is a researcher at IBM, where he creates new forms of data visualization. He is also known for the SmartMoney.com Map of the Market. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.
Marek Walczak is an artist and architect who trained at the Architectural Association in London and Cooper Union in New York. He is interested in how people participate in physical and virtual spaces. This has led to projects such as Apartment, shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide, and Dialog Table, a commission of the Walker Art Center that replaces a keyboard and mouse with a shared interface based on gesture recognition technology.
Steven R. Swartz is now chief operating officer of Hearst Corporation. Before joining Hearst in 2001, Swartz was president and chief executive of SmartMoney. Prior to becoming CEO in 1995, Swartz had been the magazine's founding editor since 1991. Swartz began his journalism career as a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in 1984 after graduating from Harvard. He served as an editor on the Journal's Page One staff from 1989 to 1991.