Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hacker Ethos Sharing – Freedom of Information Openness – Reveal source code so that it can be learned from and improved upon Decentralization – The internet belongs to the people Free access to...
View ArticleClifford Stoll “Why The Web Won’t Be Nirvana”
I was enamored with the internet at the time, at the ripe age of 12. Windows 95 will have been released on August 24, 1995. But back then I did not have the mind to see the internet and technology as...
View ArticleThe Medium is the Message
“My, that’s a beautiful baby you have there!” MOTHER: “Oh, that’s nothing—you should see his photograph!” The medium: Mobile Device The message: The artifice is better and more important than life....
View ArticleI want to quit Facebook permanently but I have not made up my mind. Ryan Block makes some good points about doing so too. We’d all be much better off simplifying our technological footprints and...
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Tagged: 2054, age of information, digital age, generation, meg volk, millennials, nimblefox productions, scifi, the collapse
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Are your thoughts no less legitimate than if they were never posted online? Tagged: -delete, black mirror paradox, generation, hashtag generation, over share
View ArticleExcerpt from “The Tyranny of Other People’s Vacation Photos”
While it’s fairly easy to categorize the photographically incontinent under the headlines Narcissistic and Insecure, or some combination thereof, the photo-posting folks may not have the same clarity...
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