Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Geek Power

Geek Power
“It’s funny in a way”, says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. “When I was young, I didn’t know any old people. When we did the microprocessor revolution, there was nobody old, nobody. It’s weird how old this industry has become.” The Microsoft cofounder and I, a couple...
May 1st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The Future of War

The Future of War
Cyber-war – the way of the future? Governments are increasingly preparing themselves for an internet-based attack on their essential service infrastructure, say security experts Jonathan Richards from the Times Online The prospect of inter-governmental cyber-war was something for which...
March 18th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution
This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...
February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks

Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks
Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service. The internet giant said the decision followed a cyber attack it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights...
January 18th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

The dark side of the internet

The dark side of the internet
In the ‘deep web’, Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science....
January 14th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Second Lives – What attracts so many to live Virtual Lives?

Second Lives – What attracts so many to live Virtual Lives?
You can live there, have a job, get married, get paid, go shopping… In fact the only difference between Second Life and your nine-to-five existence is that it all goes on in a virtual world, run on computers and accessed via the internet.For a staggering 26 million people virtual worlds are...
December 17th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More

The World of Professional Gaming

The World of Professional Gaming
I came across this documentary on professional video game players or “cyber-athletes” as they like to call themselves. I thought it was an interesting insight into the many manifestations of human obsession, the quest for social validation, and the increasing number of real opportunities...
December 15th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More

Bye bye Windows?

Bye bye Windows?
Google finally made its browser, Chrome, available for Mac earlier this week. So far it’s pretty unremarkable, if anything a little faster than Firefox, but who cares? Well… Microsoft, that’s who. And here’s why. Everyone’s probably familiar with Microsoft’s recently...
December 10th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

Don’t Be Evil? Google Chrome’s Big Brother Potential

Don’t Be Evil? Google Chrome’s Big Brother Potential
John Naughton’s article (below) originally appeared in the Observer on Sunday 29th November 2009. This is the first article in what I hope to be a long-running technology series on Brainwaving about the power struggle currently taking place between the two most important technology corporations...
December 3rd, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More

The Great Wall of Facebook

The Great Wall of Facebook
The  Social Network’s Plan to  Dominate the Internet —   and Keep Google Out. Instead of working together to reach the promised land of online brand advertising, Facebook and Google are racing to see who can get there first. By Fred Vogelstein from Wired Magazine Larry Page should have...
November 20th, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More