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Digital advertisers track your online behavior, creating a detailed personal profile that is owned by the company that constructs it, which can do whatever it pleases with that information, including sell it. Emerging technologies could support a different model that respects our privacy, acknowledges our intelligence, and responds to actual needs, not manufactured desires.

It's been a month since the launch of the Evolver Social Movement. How is it going?

This week, the Reality Sandwich team has taken off for the annual Burning Man festival. We'll be back after Labor Day. In the meantime, we offer links to RS highlights from the past year.

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Our form of democracy is essentially a product of cutting-edge 18th century technology. If we re-wrote the Constitution from scratch, how would we use computers and the Internet to collaborate, manage our resources, and govern ourselves?

In the mind, sound is not so neatly sectioned off from space, touch, words, or image. One bleeds into the next, slipping and sliding in a spiral of associations. Digital media has already begun to reflect qualities of consciousness that had been beyond the means of artists to capture. In coming years, this will only accelerate.

A video of the infamous dialog between Jivamukti Yoga School co-founder Sharon Gannon and Reality Sandwich editorial director Daniel Pinchbeck, which took place February 2 at Evolver: Wake Up and Dream.

Many remember Yippie! founder Abbie Hoffman for pranks like the levitation of the Pentagon during a 1967 march against the Vietnam War (witnesses insist that it really did happen). As the new film Chicago 10 brings Abbie's brilliance to a new generation, it's good to recall, as this interview shows, that the left's leading trickster figure was a sober, serious strategist who grounded his antics in theory. [An RS Encore Presentation]

From 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran – this clash is not inevitable, and we don't want it. So where to start? Try this brilliant agit-pop video from Avaaz.org.

An email from Rev. Billy announces that Starbucks has stopped blocking Ethiopians from trademarking their ancient coffees Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar.