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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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Machine Learning & Generative Poetry (Anderson Ranch 2019 workshop impressions)
As I have done in the last five years I traveled to Aspen this year to the Anderson Ranch to do a…
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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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Jumping the shark – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
This week, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Amazon has begun ordering item search results according to their profitability for the company.…
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Collision course – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
The walk from my house to the tube station has changed very little in 30 years. The houses and their front gardens…
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