Posts Tagged ‘internet’
Mechanisms of Fear: Man and Machine at the dawn of the 20th Century
F. T. Marinetti hailed the twentieth century as the one in which man would finally consummate the “dreamt-of metallization of the human body”.[1] For Marinetti, modernity carried with it the promise of a new, dynamic synthesis of man and machine – a synthesis that Gerald Heard would, in 1939,...
December 16th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More
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
Russia and US in secret talks to fight net crime
Forget missiles, nukes and biological weapons. Many of tomorrow’s battles will be fought in the fog of cyberspace, and as Daniel Nasaw’s article from guardian.co.uk shows, the US and Russia are currently holding secret talks to lay down the ground rules for the conflicts of the future.
American...
December 14th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More
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
Wikipedia’s Known Unknowns
Back in August there were reports that Wikipedia, everyone’s favourite knowledge resource, was experiencing a slowdown in the number of new articles posted daily. But in the article which follows Mark Graham suggests that while contribution from the developed world may be at saturation point,...
December 4th, 2009 | Creativity, Science & Technology | Read More
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
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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs
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Zeppelin Renaissance
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Time for Change
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Do You Want to Live Forever?
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