China's government has long controlled the information its citizens receive through official media, but that may end as the Internet burrows deeper into the fast-changing communist country. "You cannot control Internet. That is my basic theory," said Guo, who recently completed a survey on Internet use in 12 smaller Chinese cities. "People can receive all sorts of information. from taipei times

When the markets crashed and the money steamed from high-tech like coolant from a blown radiator, most of us made a logical assumption: The engine of technological innovation was shot and things would settle down and act normal. If this is normal, I don't want to meet weird. In basements, garages and the empty warehouses that once held the Next Big Thing, tech-savvy folks are huddled over their laptops, working together online to give away the future. The result? We're seeing a surge of technological creativity that easily trumps anything we dreamed of with the dot-com PR guys crooning in our ears. from worldchanging

The coolest Japanese Anime at the moment!!
The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team. In a world where the human mind can be programmed like a computer, at what point does the human soul end and the cybernetic machinery begin? Each of the 26 episodes is "stand alone", which means it can be watched without watching the others, or "complex" wich means it adds to the background story and MUST be watched in the order they were aired. And now the 2'end movie is coming out Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence
trailer here