An iPod for the Rest of Us

Rob Pegoraro writes in the Washington Post, “Think of this tiny device (just 1 1/2 ounces with its headphones and lanyard) as the iPod for the rest of us. Where Apple’s bigger music players sell for $249 to $599, its two Shuffle models go for just $99 and $149. The cheaper model offers 512 megabytes of storage, the pricier one a gigabyte’s worth — 120 and 240 songs, respectively, by Apple’s estimates. The iPod Shuffle’s prices aren’t just cheap, they undercut those of every major competitor.” [Jan 24, 2005]

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About the Potential of E-democracy

Very interesting thoughts and ideas. Certainly, in the past technology has been a great source of change; maybe the technologies of today that embody the concept of openness could initiate another socio-economical-political change across the globe.

About the Potential of E-democracy

Abstract
This paper develops a reflection on the potential of E-democracy to strengthen society's democratization exploring historically and technically the possibilities of cooperative organizations. From Singer's historical view about the rise of capitalism it is conjectured that Internet and E-democracy could be the technological innovations capable to trigger off the creation of a virtual network of cooperative organizations and thereby the development of a new economic system, based more on humanitarian values than the present ones.
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