I decided to make this blog when I discovered Hackaday’s Mothers Day List and created the name after the interesting group LulzSec and the discovery of LulzBot.
What exactly is LulzTech? There are several major categories for disruptive technologies I’m going to address as LulzTech from now on. As part of the definition and description of LulzTech I’ll start with the main categories.
Open Source is more of an entry requirement. This movement really started with Linux, born out of frustration with the monopoly of Microsoft which in turn caused Open Source. Is it a revolution? Maybe. It’s definitely a war, depending on how you see it, which is another point of definition. It assumes a problematic society starts with bankster fraud, government invasion of privacy, corporate takeover of the middle class, etc… With LulzTech this is what is being disrupted. Things such as robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving are not disruptive but are rather being used to entrench the systems so many people consider evil. I guess it’s hard to draw a line there though.
Online Privacy is much more important than you think. Tighten up your security. You would be very surprised to know what a malicious hacker can do. Or what an out of control shadow government might be willing to try. To get started you should be running Linux on your computer as lot’s of other LulzTech are part of those distributions. Now, not all versions comply with the Open Source policy. Remember the key: Information wants to be free. Firefox is another early opponent of Microsoft, Explorer that is. Use addons like Https Everywhere and Privacy Badger from the EFF, and search only with something like duckduckgo.com. You know Google tracks you right? I can’t understand how Facebook even got so big, but now at least there’s someone in the Open Source community trying to do something in that space: The diaspora* Project. Their choice of name could have been better, like Victor Ostrovsky for instance.
Freedom of Information is obviously a problem for them which is why they are so desperate to ban encryption, limit freedoms and disarm citizens. It even causes incidents to further its main defence: growth. They have an almost complete lockdown on the media. By Way of Deception is not a fiction story. I know this seems kind of off topic but read Mike Adams’ Five Stages of Awakening. More in line with this topic is The Hacker Manifesto. This is what every LulzTech is; an open defiance towards the controllers.To me the most LulzTech of all is 3D Printing and when you do a google search for disruptive technology it’s not even on most of their lists. In fact the Harvard grad credited with coining the term puts it at the end of his list. And this Solis guy – dude! Apple Pay is NOT a disruptive technology. These lackeys are major disinformation agents. Even the hackers way has been infiltrated.
Decentralization is necessary in today’s world of infiltration, subversion and destruction. Single points of failure have been proven effective for the PTB (powers that be). This is the main strength of technologies like Bitcoin, TOR, bittorrent and MaidSafe. P-2-P.Org, napster, limewire even the internet itself. Inadvertently this exposes a giant weakness in our civilization. By design the natural progression of any government is centralization, growth and eventually totalitarianism. People are realizing this simple truth while the government is tasked with keeping us under control, hence their desire to keep a lid on it.
If it’s not upsetting the Status Quo, it’s not disruptive technology. Defence Distributed, Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, the TOR Project, Makerspace, Chaos Computer Conferences. These are disruptive technologies. These are LulzTech.
Raw list: tags
Opensource Software
Linux/Live Linux
Knoppix
Mint
Ubuntu
TOR
Firefox
Bitcoin
PeertoPeer/P2p
bittorrent
OpenBazaar.org
watchmybit.com
Social Networking
Ello
Signal
diaspora
Opensource Hardware
Raspberry Pi
Arduino
Steam Machines
3D Printing
-additive manufacturing
Opensource Intelligence
Corbett Report
21CenturyWire
BoilingFrogsPost
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Opensource Community
Makerspaces/Hackerspaces
Opensource Government
Collectivism
Anarchism
Voluntarism
Liberland
Sharing Economy
Uber / Lyft / AirBNB
Crowd Funding
Kickstarter/ Indiegogo
Crowd Sourcing
Alternative Energy
Keshe Foundation
Disclosure Project
High Technology can be disruptive
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI
Virtual Reality
-OpenVR
Augmented Reality
Distributed Computing
-Parallela
Autonomous Driving
Drones
Open Learning
EDX
Lifestyle
Valhalla Earthship
Tiny House Movement
Geurrilla Gardening
Raw Milk
Raw Food
Conferences
Chaos Computer Conference
MakerFaire
Anarchapulco
Magazines
Makezine
2600.org
mesh network
LulzTech 