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Cyberpunk Wikipedia

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Cyberpunk (en sammansttning, s kallat teleskopord, av cybernetik och punk) r en genre inom science fiction med fokus p datorer eller informationsteknik, och ibland en degenerering av samhllet. Historierna i cyberpunklitteratur kretsar ofta kring konflikten mellan hackare, artificiell intelligens och megabolag i en snar framtid p jorden. Denna framtids stder prglas ofta av dystopiska knnetecken men ven av en extraordinr energi och mngfald. Det r resultatet av sjlvkorrigering i science fiction-genren, som traditionellt sett hade ignorerat betydelsen av informationsteknik.[frtydliga]

Cyberpunkfrfattare tenderar att anvnda sig av inslag frn hrdkokta deckare, film noir, japansk anime och postmodern prosa. De beskriver den nihilistiska, underjordiska sidan av det digitala samhllet som brjade utvecklas under 1900-talets tv sista decennier. Cyberpunks dystopiska vrld har kallats fr antitesen till de utopiska science fiction-visionerna frn mitten av 1900-talet som Star Trek var ett praktexempel p.

Termen myntades ursprungligen 1980 av Minnesota-frfattaren Bruce Bethke fr hans novell "Cyberpunk", som frst publicerades i Amazing Science Fiction Stories (volym 57, nummer 4, november 1983), men den kom snabbt att anvndas som en beteckning fr verk av Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Michael Swanwick och andra, som Gardner Dozois anvnde denna beteckning fr i sin Washington Post-artikel "SF in the Eighties" 1984.

I cyberpunklitteratur utspelar sig en stor del av handlingen online, i cyberspace - den klara grnsen mellan det verkliga och den virtuella verkligheten blir suddig. En typisk (dock ej universell) egenskap i genren r en direkt koppling mellan den mnskliga hjrnan och datorsystem.

Cyberpunkvrlden r en ondskefull, mrk och dystopisk plats med ntverksanslutna datorer som dominerar varje aspekt av livet. Gigantiska multinationella fretag har ersatt regeringar som maktcenter. Den alienerade outsiderns kamp mot ett totalitrt system r ett vanligt tema inom science fiction, men i konventionell sdan tenderade dessa system att vara sterila, ordnade och statskontrollerade. I skarp kontrast visar cyberpunk den moraliskt degraderade baksidan av fretagsstyrda samhllssystem och desillusionerade rebellers kamp mot detta. Protagonisterna i cyberpunklitteratur inkluderar ofta datorhackare och krigare inspirerade av japansk anime, inklusive cyborgs, samurajer (ronins) och ninjor. Dessa huvudpersoner tskiljs frn andra av deras ovrdade sprk, uppskattning av konst, och skurkaktiga charm. Hjltarna r skurkartade - aldrig vlfriserade "good guys".

Cyberpunklitteratur tenderar att vara starkt dystopisk och pessimistisk. Det r ofta en metafor fr nutiden, med reflektioner kring storbolag, rovdrift p naturen, korruption i regeringar och alienation. En del frfattare har ocks som avsikt att lta sina verk utgra varningar fr mjliga framtidsscenarion som kan vara konsekvenser av nuvarande utvecklingsriktningar. Som sdan r cyberpunk ofta skriven med avsikten att gra lsaren oroad och f honom eller henne att gra ngot.

Cyberpunkhistorier ses av vissa teoretiker som fiktiva prognoser fr utvecklingen av Internet. Internets virtuella vrld frekommer ofta i cyberpunk under olika namn, inklusive "cyberspace", "the Metaverse" (som i Neal Stephensons Snow Crash) och "the Matrix" (ursprungligen frn Doctor Who, och senare i William Gibsons Neuromancer, men nnu mer populariserad i rollspelet Shadowrun och senare av filmen The Matrix).

Bland fregngarna till genren kan bland annat Aldous Huxley som skrev Du skna nya vrld 1932 och George Orwell som 1948 skrev 1984 nmnas. Andra exempel r Alfred Bester, som skrev The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!) 1956 och William S. Burroughs som skrev Den nakna lunchen 1959 och Den mjuka maskinen 1961.

K. W. Jeter, som skrev Dr. Adder (publicerad p 1980-talet men skriven tidigare) anses vara den som myntade begreppet steampunk. Roger Zelazny skrev romanen Dream Maste], som han utvecklade frn sin kortroman He Who Shapes. Vernor Vinge, som skrev True Names 1981, var en av de frsta som skrev om cyberspace.

Philip K. Dicks Androidens drmmar frn 1968 filmatiserades 1982 som Blade Runner. David Drake (Lacey and His Friends, 1974), John Brunner (The Shockwave Rider, 1975), John M. Ford (Web of Angels, 1980) r ngra andra fregngare till genren.

"Allt som kan gras mot en rtta kan gras mot en mnniska. Och vi kan gra nstan vad som helst mot rttor. Det r svrt att tnka sig, men det r sant. Det frsvinner inte om vi blundar. Det r cyberpunk." /Bruce Sterling[1]

William Gibson med sin roman Neuromancer (1984) r frmodligen den mest knda frfattaren frknippad med termen cyberpunk. Han betonade stil, karaktrsutveckling och atmosfr framfr traditionellt science fiction-sprk, och Neuromancer belnades med tre stora utmrkelse: Hugo Award, Nebula Award och Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Andra vlknda cyberpunkfrfattare inkluderar Bruce Sterling (som var rrelsens chefsideolog med sitt fanzine Cheap Truth), Rudy Rucker, Pat Cadigan, Walter Jon Williams och Neal Stephenson.

Raymond Chandler med sin bleka, cyniska vrldssyn och 'staccato'-prosa hade starkt inflytande p skaparna av genren. Cyberpunkvrlden r den dystopiska, hopplsa film noir-vrlden, men knuffad en liten bit in i framtiden. Philip K. Dick hade ocks starkt inflytande p genren; hans verk innehller de terkommande temana socialt frfall, artificiell intelligens och utsuddade grnser mellan verkligheten och ngon sorts virtuell verklighet. Dicks karaktrer r ocks ofta marginaliserade.

Filmen Blade Runner (1982), baserad p Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, utspelar sig i en dystopisk framtid dr syntetiska livsformer har frre rttigheter n vanliga mnniskor. Robocop-serien r i en mer nrbelgen framtid dr ett megabolag, Omni Consumer Products, har stor makt i staden Detroit.

Den kortlivade tv-serien Max Headroom introducerade ocks mnga tittare till genren.

Den japanska manga-skaparen Masamune Shirow skriver ofta i cyberpunk-stil. Hans mest betydelsefulla historier inom genren inkluderar Appleseed, Black Macic M-66 och srskilt Ghost in the Shell, som gjorts till en hyllad anime som p flera niver ifrgastter grnsen mellan liv och simulering. Ghost in the Shell har ocks gjorts till en animeserie fr tv kallad Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Den nyaste uppfljaren till Ghost in the Shell r Mamoru Oshiis anime-film Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence frn 2004. Filmen r en av de mest filosofiska historierna relaterade till artificiellt liv. Berttelsen, fylld med historiska och litterra referenser, "har inte synen att vrlden kretsar kring den mnskliga rasen. I stllet kommer den fram till att alla livsformer - mnniskor, djur och robotar - r likvrdiga" (Mamoru Oshii).

Ett frsk att lista film- och tv-verk som kan klassificeras som cyberpunk fljer nedan.

tminstone tv rollspel med namnet Cyberpunk existerar: Cyberpunk 2020, av R. Talsorian Games, och GURPS Cyberpunk, publicerat av Steve Jackson Games som en modul i GURPS-familjen av rollspel. Cyberpunk 2020 designades med William Gibsons verk i tanke, och till viss utstrckning med hans godknnande, till skillnad frn FASAs mhnda mer kreativa instllning i skapandet av spelet Shadowrun (se nedan). Bda de Cyberpunk-titulerade spelen utspelar sig i en nra framtid, dr cybernetik och datorer r nnu mer vanligt frekommande n idag.

Ett annat cyberpunk-RPG r Cyberspace frn Iron Crown[2]. Bolagskorruption r ett vanligt tema i dessa spelventyr. Karaktrerna kringgr ofta lagen, eller ignorerar den fullstndigt. Nyligen har "d20 Open Gaming Movement" kommit med flera nyheter, inklusive Mongooses d20 Cyberpunk och LRG:s Digital Burn.

1990, i en udda sammanstrlning mellan cyberpunk och verklighet, gjorde amerikanska Secret Service en razzia p Steve Jackson Games hgkvarter under Operation Sundevil och beslagtog alla deras datorer. Detta var - hvdade man - fr att boken till GURPS Cyberpunk kunde anvndas fr att beg datorbrott. Det var inte den egentliga huvudorsaken till razzian[kllabehvs] men efter hndelsen var det fr sent fr att ndra p allmnhetens uppfattning om det intrffade. Steve Jackson Games vann senare, med hjlp av det d nyligen grundade Electronic Frontier Foundation, en rttsprocess mot Secret Service.

En av de mer unika tolkningarna av genren kom 1989 i form av spelerien Shadowrun. Hr r det fortfarande en dystopisk, nra framtid som gller, men det inkluderar ven mnga stora element frn fantasylitteratur och fantasyspel, till exempel magi, alver och drakar. Shadowruns cyberpunksidor var till stor del modellerade efter William Gibsons verk, och spelets utgivare, FASA, har anklagats av mnga fr att ha snott Gibsons arbete utan att ens ha citerat honom som en influens. Gibson sjlv rapporteras inte ha varit srskilt imponerad av inkluderandet av fantasyelement i uppenbart derivativa miljelement och berttartekniker som han hade lagt grunden fr. Likvl introducerade Shadowrun mnga personer till genren och r fortfarande populrt n idag bland gamers.

Rollspelet Torg (utgivet av West End Games inkluderade en variant p en cyberpunkmilj (eller "cosm") kallad Cyberpapacy. Denna var ursprungligen en medeltida religis dystopi som undergick en pltslig "Tech Surge". I stllet fr stora bolag eller korrupta regeringar dominerades Cyberpapacy av "False Papacy of Avignon". I stllet fr ett Internet tog sig hackare fram p "GodNet", ett datorsystem fullt av religis symbolik och hem fr nglar, demoner och andra bibliska figurer.

Det finns ven ett svenskt rollspel vrt att nmnas, nmligen Neotech frn NeoGames. Sjlva spelet utgr frn r 2059 d vrlden r i upplsningstillstnd. USA har splittrats i ett blodigt inbrdeskrig, Sibirien har slagit sig fritt frn Ryssland och England har isolerats sig och blivit en diktatur. I mot denna bakgrund, samt flera sjuka hndelser som visar att allt kan kpas fr pengar, utspelar sig Neotech. Stderna har ofta en krna av frfall dr de flesta bor. Runt denna frfallna krna bygger sedan fretagen upp sina bostadsorter, fabriker och kontor dr man lever i hrligt ovetande om det lidande som pgr i stadskrnan. Som brukligt i Cyberpunk har megafretagen i stort sett all makt. De f starka regeringar som finns kvar lever under stndigt tryck frn fretagen som bara vntar p rtt tillflle att f kpa upp landet ifrga. En rolig sidonotering r att Skandinavien framstlls som ett rttvisans och frihetens land, som en sista utpost mot megafretagen.

Svenska ventyrsspel slppte 1989 en uppdaterad version av sitt klassiska rollspel Mutant. Detta "Nya" Mutant (ven knt som Mutant 2089 eller mer informellt "Nya Mutant") var starkt influerat av cyberpunkvgen. Spelvrlden var omgjort till ett mrkt framtidssamhlle dr befolkning lever ihoptrngd i Megacities (jttestora stder) som kontrolleras av megakorporationer (allomfattande storfretag).

Ett annat anmrkningsvrt RPG baserat p cyberpunk r Uplink, skapat av Introversion Software 2002, i vilket spelaren jobbar som en frilansande hackare r 2010 och jobbar fr olika bolag. Uppdragen varierar frn stld av filer frn konkurrerande fretag till det slutliga uppdraget dr spelaren ska frska att antingen frstra Internet eller rdda det frn total frstrelse.

Netrunner r ett samlarkortspel introducerat 1996, baserat p Cyberpunk 2020.

Datorspel har ofta anvnd cyberpunk som en inspirationsklla. De vanligaste av dessa r System Shock-serien, Deus Ex-serien och Shadowrun-videospelen.

En ovanlig undergenre till cyberpunk r steampunk, som utspelar sig i en anakronistisk Viktoriansk milj, men med cyberpunks bleka film noir-vrldssyn. The Difference Engine (av William Gibson och Bruce Sterling) var antagligen den bok som hjlpte till med att bringa denna genre till frgrunden.

En uppkommande genre kallad postcyberpunk fortstter med koncentrationen p datorers effekt, men utan antagandet om dystopi eller betoningen p cybernetiska implantat.

Cyberprep r en term som reflekterar den motsatta sidan av cyberpunk.

Under det tidiga 1990-talet dk biopunk upp, dr namnet r en sammanslagning av bioteknik och punk. Det r en derivativ undergenre som i stllet fr informationsteknik bygger p biologi, det andra dominerande vetenskapliga omrdet vid slutet av 1900-talet. Individer frndras inte med hjlp av mekaniska ting utan genom genetisk manipulation. Paul Di Filippo anses vara den mest framstende biopunk-frfattaren. Exempel p biopunk r filmerna Gattaca och The Island.

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Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain

Robotics Does!

Dr. Marcia L. Tate

Visualize the following two scenarios. Mrs. Martin teaches 11th grade British literature at George Washington High School. Lecture is her primary method for delivering instruction. Oftentimes the lectures last for more than half the period. Today the lecture is about Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet. Some of the higher achieving students are paying close attention since they know that much of the information will appear on the next exam. Other students are looking at Mrs. Martin while thinking about everything except the play.

Mr. Abraham teaches the very same course at Northside High School. He is the favorite teacher of most of the students in his class. He has very few, if any, behavior problems. Mr. Abraham must cover the same curriculum as Mrs. Martin; however, the two classrooms bear little resemblance to one another. Mr. Abraham is also teaching Romeo and Juliet. Last week, he completed a graphic organizer on the board that accompanied his seven-minute minilecture, comparing and contrasting the traits of several of the main characters. His students began working in cooperative groups rewriting five different scenes from the play into dramatic presentations. Students have been assigned parts and today they will grade one anothers presentations according to a rubric which they developed themselves.

Which teacher would you rather have? Which teacher would you rather be? Over the last 15 years, I have studied the research of learning style theorists (Gardner, 1983; Sternberg, 2000) and examined brain research (Jensen, 2008, 2009; Sousa, 2006) and synthesized it into 20 strategies (Tate, 2003) that appear more effective for understanding and long-term retention of information than do worksheets or long lectures. The 20 strategies are summarized in the paragraphs which follow. As you peruse them, determine which ones you consistently use during instruction and which ones you would do well to add to your repertoire.

(1) Brainstorming and Discussion

(2) Reciprocal Teaching

In many classrooms students are discouraged from talking with one another at any time and yet, the brain research is telling us that students learn 90% of what they say or discuss as they complete an activity and 90% of what they teach to others.

(3) Drawing and Artwork

(4) Writing

The strategy of drawing and artwork serves students well in the real world as they become artists, architects, sculptures, and engineers but is often discounted in classrooms. Yet, many students, particularly boys, are off task during class drawing superheroes, cars, and people. Teachers should put the visual-spatial intelligence to work by allowing students to draw what they are learning in class. The brain also remembers what it writes down which is why people who make lists have a better chance of remembering.

(5) Field Trips

(6) Project-based and Problem-based Instruction

(7) Work Study

Brains grow better in the real world than in artificial learning environments. The more relevant a teacher can make instruction to the world of students, the easier it is for them to understand and retain content. When students are traveling to places in the real world to achieve a content objective, the brain remembers the trek. When they are solving a real-world problem or completing a real-world interdisciplinary project, the learning sticks to the brain. The strategy of work-study or apprenticeships enables students to apply what they have learned to the context of the real world while learning under a professional who has already mastered the content.

(8) Graphic Organizers

(9) Visuals

The saying, A picture is worth a thousand words, is true. In fact, in this age of television, video games, and computers, the visual modality is a strong modality for most students. Therefore, pictures on the walls that reinforce the learning, videos, SMART boards, and writing on the board all reinforce the learning. Graphic organizers are effective visuals for addressing both the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The left hemisphere can read the words while the right hemisphere takes in the pictures.

(10) Humor

(11) Games

When students are laughing with each other, they are not laughing at each other. Laughter not only produces T-cells which strengthen the immune system and improve the quality of ones health but it puts students brains in a state for optimal learning. One way to get students laughing is to play games. Students not only learn more when playing a game but their participation in class and their motivation for learning increases.

(12) Manipulatives

(13) Technology

Many students possess visual-spatial intelligence which serves them well in the real world of work. They become architects, engineers, artists, and surgeons. However, that same intelligence does not always serve them well in school. When teachers allow students to use manipulatives in math, conduct experiments and labs in science, and build models across the curriculum, understanding and retention of content occur.

The strategy of technology also enables students to use their hands in combination with their brains to actively engage with content. While technology is listed as one of the eight competencies that every graduating senior needs (SCANS, 1991), it is just one of 20 strategies and should not be viewed as the ultimate way of delivering instruction.

(14) Movement

(15) Role play

When the body is engaged during learning, the information can be put in one of the strongest memory systems - procedural or muscle memory. That is why people tend not to forget how to drive a car, ride a bike, or play the piano, even if they have not done so in a while. Rather than having students sit while their teachers do all the work, having them up and actively engaged in the content not only goes a long way toward ensuring that they pass any tests but that they will remember the information long after the test is over.

(16) Metaphor, Analogy and Simile

(17) Mnemonic Devices

Since the brain thinks in connections, any strategy that assists students in connecting content together is meaningful to memory. Metaphors, analogies, and similes should be used to connect concepts that are unfamiliar to students to those that are familiar. For example, A main idea is like a text message or The brain is like a chain since it has many links are two similes that help students understand. Mnemonic devices also assist memory since they connect content together using acronyms (HOMES, ROY G. BIV) or acrostics (My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas or Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally).

(18) Music

Over 50% of behavior problems can be reduced by creating a classroom environment with appropriate music, lighting, color, aroma, and seating. When they say that Music soothes the savage beast, they are not kidding. Musical performance also appears to strongly correlate with improved academic achievement, particularly in math and foreign language and with a persons ability to retain information.

(19) Storytelling

(20) Visualization

When a speaker, minister, or teacher tells a story, everybody listens. Why? Stories use the auditory modality with the frontal lobes of the brain to follow the storys plot. After a period of intense learning, storytelling enables the brain to relax and facilitates the retention of newly-acquired material. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, therefore, the content is connected together and this helps the brain remember. Many students have had no practice in visualization since the toys they play with (such as video games and computers) provide vivid visuals. Therefore, they assume that reading is too difficult. Good readers have to visualize the action in a story as they read. Visualization enhances learning and retention of information since during mental imagery, the same sections of the brains visual cortex are activated than when the eyes are actually processing input from the real world.

Well, there you have it! Those are the strategies. There are three major reasons why these 20 strategies work. They increase achievement for all students, they decrease behavior problems in the classroom, and they make teaching and learning fun! Only 20 strategies but consider the thousands of possibilities for delivering instruction! Make each day in your classroom one to remember!

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"Should Blackmore's theory turn out to be true, there's little doubt she will be remembered as one of the great thinkers of the 20th century." Barry Lyons reviewing The Meme Machine

Je suis Charlie and why

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AI is already evolving beyond our control - the implications of a third replicator in CommentisFree September 2015

"Genes, Memes and Tremes" on TV in Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, May 2015

Twitterbrain - how analyses of viral memes is helping track information spreading in the brain.

and a must-watch video 'This video will make you angry' is a brilliant rant about 'thought germs'. What a shame it mentions the word 'meme' only once.

The Eye of the Tremes Watch our New Video. This is based on the idea that the phones, computers and servers we are building are becoming interconnected like neurons in a brain. But this treme machine has no eyes. Or does it? With the advent of drones we may have found the eye of the tremes.

Tremes v temes

I have had such trouble with the term 'temes' that I am trying 'tremes' instead. I am sorry if this is confusing but I hope it might help.

100 walked out of my lecture on memes. On the RDF website with hundreds of comments. Aug 2014

Practical Memetics: A huge new website by Martin Farncombe devoted to understanding memes in business and organisations, includes extracts from my work.

Paper on memes in science Kuhn et al 2014 Inheritance patterns in citation networks reveal scientific memes

A fun article on Internet memes in the Virgin Australia Inflight Mag -refers to 'the burgeoning field of memetics'!

The third replicator -

To find out more about temes, watch my TED talk now podcast in English and with a choice of subtitles in 21 other languages! or short lecture at the Hay Festival 2011 "Genes, Memes and Temes" read a book chapter a blog from Hassners on my lecture or read the Feature article in New Scientist .

Podcast interview with Sue on US Public Radio To the best of our knowledge about memes and temes. 29 July 2012

Jonnie Hughes article in The Independent 14 July 2012 on his new book On the Origin of Tepees.

Alan Winfield's 5 minute lecture on dancing robots, from his Artificial Culture Project at UWE Bristol. Interview on dancing robots in BBC News Technology June 2012

Q&A with Sue for Know Your Meme, April 2012

Art experiments with copying and Chinese Whispers by Rachel Cohen

Richard Dawkins on memetically engineering the word "bright" in "Atheist - the Dirty Word" YouTube

Edge Question 2009 What will change everything? Read my response - Artificial, self replicating meme machines.

How to get rid of religion - a memetic view by Floris van den Berg

Imitation makes us human Extract.

The Loo Roll meme !

More criticisms from Mary Midgley

Virus of the mind Jolyon Troscianko

Memetics UK

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Sue's publications on memes.

To watch or listen ...

Interview on memes with Karol Jalochowski, with subtitles in Polish, Jan 2012

Internet memes on The Pod Delusion 2010

C-Realm podcast - Sue talks to KMO about memes, drugs and Zen. 28 Jan 2009

Genes, memes and temes. Lecture at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Monterey, CA, 28 Feb 2008

Is God a dangerous delusion? A debate with Alister McGrath at Bristol University, 13.11.2007

Darwin Day Lecture "Darwin's Meme: On the origin of culture by means of natural selection" , , University of Central Lancashire, 12.02.07 Abstract

The Sci Phi Show - Outcast #8, Interview on Memes, 21 August 2006

The Future of Memetics audio of a lecture given at Pop!Tech 2005

To read ....

my blog at CiF is about Internet memes April 2011

The Edge Question 2010. How is the Internet changing the way you think? See my response on Self and the Third Replicator as well as previous answers.

Articles in New Humanist - Natural selection applies to everything, in Aesthetica - Memes, Creativity and Consciousness, and follow up to Massimo Pigliucci's objections to memetics in Skeptical Inquirer 2008.

Art and memes article

Interview for NextModernity Library.

Review of Richerson and Boyd's new book Not by Genes Alone.

Interview for GEO magazine (German), December 2003 Die Tyrannei der Meme.

Interview with Pascal Jouxtel for the la Socit Francophone de Mmtique, inboth French and English

Memes in Japan

... and Old (1997)! Interview with Andrew Brown for Salon Magazine

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Experience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the Governments purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. United States v. Olmstead, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1925) (Brandeis, J., dissenting)

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In Arizona v. Evans, 63 U.S.L.W. 4179 (March 1, 1995)(7-2), the Court held that the exclusionary rule does not apply to evidence seized by the police on the basis of a mistaken computer entry generated by court employees (rather than the police them- selves). In a combination of concurring and dissenting opinions, however, five members of the Court expressed great concern about the proliferation of computerized criminal justice records and their potential impact on personal privacy. Accordingly, the decision stops far short of creating a general good faith excep- tion to the exclusionary rule for any Fourth Amendment violation based on a computer mistake. The ACLU submitted an amicus brief supporting the defendant's claim that the evidence was properly excluded in this case regardless of which agency bore responsibi- lity for the underlying computer error. Summary of Argument in ACLU amicus brief

In Wilson v. Arkansas, 63 U.S.L.W. 4456 (May 22, 1995)(9-0), the Court ruled that the "reasonableness" requirement of the Fourth Amendment generally requires the police to "knock and announce" their presence when executing a search warrant. The Court acknowledged that this presumption may be overcome in exigent circumstances. However, the Court did not give law enforcement officials a carte blanche to ignore the "knock and announce" rule in all cases. The ACLU submitted an amicus brief arguing in favor of the "knock and announce" rule. Summary of Argument in ACLU amicus brief

In Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, 63 U.S.L.W. 4653 (June 26, 1995)(6-3), the Court upheld a program of random, suspicionless drug testing for middle or high school athletes. The majority opinion, written by Justice Scalia, acknowledged that drug testing constitutes a search for Fourth Amendment purposes. The Court nevertheless concluded that students have diminished Fourth Amendment rights that are outweighed by the state's interest in addressing the problem of drugs in schools. In a strongly worded dissent, Justice O'Connor criticized the majority for "dispens[ing] with the requirement of individualized suspicion . . ." Id. at 4659. The ACLU represented the student plaintiff in this case. Summary of Argument in ACLU amicus brief

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

And yet, for years, those 27 brief words have been the source of contentious debate -- seen by some as an inalienable protection against tyranny; by others as a dangerous anachronism.

Here's a look at the Second Amendment, its phrases parsed and placed in legal and historical context.

Our guides will be Constitutional experts Jeffrey Rosen and Jack Rakove.

What is a militia?

At the time of the American Revolutionary War, militias were groups of able-bodied men who protected their towns, colonies, and eventually states. "[When the Constitution was drafted], the militia was a state-based institution," says Rakove. "States were responsible for organizing this."

What did it mean to be well regulated?

One of the biggest challenges in interpreting a centuries-old document is that the meanings of words change or diverge.

"Well-regulated in the 18th century tended to be something like well-organized, well-armed, well-disciplined," says Rakove. "It didn't mean 'regulation' in the sense that we use it now, in that it's not about the regulatory state. There's been nuance there. It means the militia was in an effective shape to fight."

In other words, it didn't mean the state was controlling the militia in a certain way, but rather that the militia was prepared to do its duty.

What type of security was referred to here?

To get to that, consider the climate of the United States at the time. The country had just fought a war, won its independence and was expanding west. There were plenty of reasons to feel unsafe, and so "security" had a very palpable meaning.

"You have an expanding country, and the principle defense use of the militia would be to protect local residents from attack and invasion," Rakove says.

It also meant physical protection from government overreach.

"The idea of a state militia would also be attractive because it serves as a deterrent against national tyranny," says Rakove. "At the time, if government forces tried to take over land or overstep their boundaries, you'd have an institution in place -- the militia -- that would outnumber any army."

Of course, with the size and scope of the modern United States military, and the fact that militias as we know it no longer exist, that notion is hard to imagine today.

In the debate over the Second Amendment, this phrase, "a well regulated militia," remains one of the most cited and argued parts of the sentence.

What did a free state mean?

It may seem obvious, but Rosen and Rakove agree the Constitution bore a lot of contemporary moralism and not every word is well-defined.

In this case, the meaning of "state" is what it appears to be.

"This is referring immediately to 'state' as in one of the states of the original colonies," Rosen says. "James Madison had the 1777 Virginia Declaration of Rights by his side when he wrote the Bill of Rights and he essentially copied and pasted language from it."

But it could also speak to a larger understanding of liberty.

"So here," Rosen continues, "George Mason (the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights) is talking about not only the free state of Virginia." He is also talking about a broader state of freedom.

What kind of rights?

This is another highly-contested area where it helps to know more about how the framers of the Constitution thought about complex ideas like "rights."

"When we think about 'rights,' we think of them as regulations and exemptions," Rakove says. "Back at the birth of our nation, they had a different quality. They were more moralistic."

Rosen says this viewpoint is reflected in the Declaration of Independence:

"The framers definitely believed in natural rights -- that they are endowed by a creator," Rosen says. "They believed we are born into a state of nature before we form governments, and that we are endowed with certain fundamental rights."

These natural rights included the right to religious expression, free speech, property and more. But they did not, Rosen says, specifically include the tenets of the Second Amendment.

"The framers did not talk about the right to bear arms as one of the set of natural rights," he says. "But it is fair to say that the right to alter and abolish government -- to the degree that modern people claim they have that right -- the framers certainly believe it."

"In that sense, it is historically accurate to say that the framers did recognize a natural right of self-defense."

Who are the people?

Even the term "people" -- the most basic catch-all -- has limitations.

"You say people, you mean individual persons," says Rakove. "But, if you go to Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, it says the House of Representatives will be chosen by the people -- who are the persons? Who are entitled to exercise that suffrage? You see, you can use the term 'people' to imply a collective mass, but there are some categories of people that can be excluded."

After all, when the Constitution was written, slaves were considered property and women were not allowed to vote.

In addition, there is a more basic question of semantics: By "the people," is the Second Amendment referring to people as private entities, or as participants in the militia?

The legal consensus is that the Second Amendment applies to individual rights, within reasonable regulations. More on that below.

What are Arms in this context, and what is the scope of bearing Arms?

The decision struck down the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, which heavily regulated owning and keeping firearms in the District of Columbia.

In the above excerpt, we can see the Court considered the awkward phrasing of the Amendment. The Justices divided the Amendment into an operative clause: "right of the people to keep and bear arms," and a prefatory clause: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State." The court determined the relationship between these phrases, as well as the historical context of the Constutition's creation, clearly provided an individual right.

The term "arms" is also an ever-changing one, and there are ongoing debates about assault weapons and emerging firearm technologies.

"One thing people disagree about is whether assault weapons bans are constitutional," says Rosen. "They also disagree about how we should interpret the constitution in terms of history or in light of new technologies."

What does it all mean?

"It's really striking that since these Supreme Court decisions... lower courts have upheld almost all of the gun regulations they have asked to review," he says.

Rakove thinks the framers of the Constitution would be surprised at the conversations we are having today.

"While there is a common law right to self-defense, most historians think that it would be remarkable news to the framers of the Second Amendment that they were actually constitutionalizing a personal right to self-defense as opposed to trying to say something significant about the militia," he says.

Words like "militia" and "rights" are loaded with historical context and nuance that can act as a Rorschach test, leading even the best-intentioned interpreters to different conclusions. If there were any clear answers, these 27 words wouldn't be so incendiary.

Jack Rakove is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History at Stanford University. His book "Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution" won a Pulitzer Prize in History.

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Inspired by the drawings of Antonio SantElia, these visualisations were created to show hisvast imaginary monolithic structures placed in a London setting 100 years later. Below are a few lines from the Wikipedia article describing his life and career.

Antonio SantElia was born inComo,Lombardy. A builder by training, he opened adesignoffice inMilanin 1912 and became involved with theFuturistmovement. Between 1912 and 1914, influenced by industrial cities of theUnited Statesand the architectsRenzo Picasso,Otto WagnerandAdolf Loos, he began a series of design drawings for a futuristCitt Nuova(New City) that was conceived as a symbol of a new age.

Many of these drawings were displayed at the only exhibition of theNuove Tendenzegroup (of which he was a member) exhibition in May/June 1914 at the Famiglia Artistica gallery. Today, some of these drawings are on permanent display at Comos art gallery (Pinacoteca).

ThemanifestoFuturist Architecturewas published in August 1914, supposedly by SantElia, though this is subject to debate. In it the author stated that the decorative value of Futurist architecture depends solely on the use and original arrangement of raw or bare or violently colored materials.His vision was for a highly industrialised andmechanizedcity of the future, which he saw not as a mass of individual buildings but a vast, multi-level, interconnected and integrated urbanconurbationdesigned around the life of the city. His extremely influential designs featured vast monolithicskyscraperbuildings with terraces, bridges and aerial walkways that embodied the sheer excitement of modern architecture and technology. Even in this excitement for technology and modernity, in SantElias monumentalism, however, can be found elements ofArt NouveauarchitectGiuseppe Sommaruga.

Anationalistas well as anirredentist, SantElia joined the Italian army as Italy enteredWorld War Iin 1915. He was killed during theEighth Battle of the Isonzo, nearGorizia. Most of his designs were never built, but his futurist vision has influenced many architects, artists and designers.

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