Waking Up in the Digital Single Market »

11 May 2017 | Per Strömbäck

“So I woke up this morning and it was the year 2025. All of the DSM policies had been implemented. (Don’t ask about the US president!) I thought back on last night’s… [read more]” Today, Euracti... »

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CJEU Declares Illegal Streaming Illegal »

27 April 2017 | Per Strömbäck

When movie piracy shifted from torrent downloads to illegal streaming, it brought a legal debate whether it was actually illegal to watch illegal streaming. We already knew from a 2104 ruling by the C... »

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Terror Attack in Stockholm Brings Out the Best and the Worst in Social Media »

10 April 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Police car in Stockholm covered with flowers during manifestation (Photo: Karin Lindgren Strömbäck) On Friday afternoon, my hometown Stockholm suffered a terror attack. The terrorist drove a st... »

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Is Technology Culture? Yes and No and Maybe »

31 March 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Is technology culture? The answer depends on what you mean by “technology”. And “culture”. Starting with culture, there are three main meanings of the word: culture as art, culture as human effort and... »

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Google Sees the Light after Advertisers Pull Out »

27 March 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Consumer power may be an illusion online, but advertiser power is real. In theory, users can “vote with their feet” and leave a service they don’t like. This is often hailed as “competition is only on... »

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“Blame the Driver” – Uber Attitude Problems »

21 March 2017 | Per Strömbäck

I vowed never to complain about Brussels traffic after I visited Istanbul. The moves my cab driver made to get me to the airport in time included reversing in high-speed against on-coming traffic on t... »

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The Answer to Automation, Robot tax and Basic Income Is… »

10 March 2017 | Per Strömbäck

The Digital Single Market is expected to create Billions of Euros (between 17 and 415 per year, depending on whom you ask). Except on closer inspection, those Billions are not added to the economy – t... »

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Who Is Héctor Prima? »

26 February 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Basic income is sometimes regarded as an inevitable result of technological progress. If automation takes away all jobs, the state will have to pay people to do nothing goes the logic. This could be p... »

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Robots – Man’s New Best Friend? »

22 February 2017 | Per Strömbäck

You know the future is already here when the European Parliament has a report on robots and AI. Not only the rapporteur, Luxemburg socialist MEP Delveaux Stehres, and Netopia take an interest in these... »

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Memento Mori or Can Peter Diamandis Make Uncomfortable Shoes? »

15 February 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Singularity University is a think-tank in Silicon Valley, perhaps the most important place in the world for technology philosophy. It appears there is no problem that technology can’t fix: Death? Tran... »

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