Society and technology academic Evgeny Morozov has been researching early 1970s Chilean President Allende’s Project Cybersyn to bring socialism into the computer age under the rubric of ‘the origins of the Big Data nation’. The Socialist Origins of Big Data by Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, October 6, 2014 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine Tim Martin started a discussion …
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Decline and gentrification in The Secret History of Our Streets
Interesting BBC series on the social history of well known streets across London, and how they decline and gentrify
Review: Release 2.0 by Esther Dyson (World Link)
Release 2.0: A Design For Living in the Digital Age by Esther Dyson Esther Dyson stands head and shoulders above other IT commentators. She presents clear explanations and elegant solutions but sometimes misses the bigger context. Release 2.0 is an invaluable read for anyone already enthusiastic and informed about the digital world. Is it a …
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Panel: The Social Impact of the Web, 2017
This Friday [May 25, 2007] I am speaking on a panel at the RSA Conference The Social Impact of the Web: Society, Government and the Internet in London. I will be on the panel with Bronwyn Kunhardt, co-founder of Social Media Consensus and Polecat Ltd, and former Director of Citizenship at Microsoft UK, and M …
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Quoted on technology adoption in The Economist
The Economist’s Technology Quarterly addressed the way Camera-phones were being used for more than just taking pictures (MONITOR – Phones with eyes, Technology Quarterly, The Economist, Mar 12th 2005). I was quoted by author Duncan Graham-Rowe: It might not be what the mobile operators had in mind when they launched their picture-messaging services, but it does …
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