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Happy birthday, internet – let’s make the next 50 years just as innovative
By Jim Boulton from Digital Archeology How do we define the birth of the internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity, it is…
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Burn rate – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
One of my favorite moments in the 1996 sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun was when Dick (John Lithgow), the high commander…
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
So can we stop now with the fantasy that data can be anonymized? Two things sparked this train of thought. The first…
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50 Years of the Internet by Plexal – Event
The internet’s turning 50. Come celebrate with Here East and Plexal. About this Event At 10.30pm on 29 October 1969, a team…
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I never paid for it in my life – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
So Jaron Lanier is back, arguing that we should be paid for our data. He was last seen in net.wars two years…
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We love to travel, but how to make it more CO2 efficient?
How to hack travel – and save CO2 footprint HackTravel took place in early October, with travel fans with a climate change…
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The China Syndrome – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
About five years ago, a friend commented that despite the early belief – promulgated by, among others, then-US president Bill Clinton and…
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Digital London – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Anyone studying my travel patterns on the London Underground will encounter a conundrum: what makes a person undertake, once or twice a…
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Balancing acts – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
The Court of Justice of the European Union had an important moment on Tuesday, albeit overshadowed by another court elsewhere, ruling that…
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