Regulation Begat Silicon Valley rather than “US Innovates, China Replicates, Europe Regulates” »

7 July 2024 | netopia

Is it only me or has the phrase US innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates become increasingly popular? In any case, it smells like a myth. Let’s dissect it. The narrative that only America c... »

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Vote AI? »

6 June 2024 | netopia

Netopia turned to artificial intelligence for guidance in this European election. We put the election manifestos of the main party groups into a large language model and asked it to analyse the dig... »

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Is Silicon Valley Running out of Hype? »

18 April 2024 | netopia

The digital economy runs on optimism and expectation. Tech startups don’t make money as long as the scale. Big tech shares are measured with a different yardstick than other businesses. Employees many... »

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What Dune Can Tell You about Copyright and Creative Work (bonus: Space Swim Suit) »

13 March 2024 | netopia

Everybody’s talking about Dune II, Netopia also wants to be in the club! We don’t review movies, but there is a copyright angle here – and not one you might expect. Here goes: I have done a fair sh... »

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Europe’s Digital Phantom Pains (or: How Start-up Programs Feed the Tech Beast) »

8 March 2024 | netopia

There is a particular flavour of European techno-nostalgia. It says something like: We used to be the leaders. We used to be inventors. We used to make the fastest trains, the fastest planes and the f... »

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Feature Creep and the Horror of Opportunity »

24 January 2024 | netopia

“Digitalization brings fantastic opportunities” – ever hear that line? I’ve heard it a lot, in particular from people in public office (=politicians) and civil servants (=bureaucrats). One time, I fou... »

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Why Europeans (and Floorball) Benefit from Geo-Blocking »

10 December 2023 | Per Strömbäck

Some ideas are bad and some bad ideas die hard. The debate about a ban on so-called “geo-blocking” is approaching a decade. Time has not helped make the idea of a ban any better. “Geo-blocking” mea... »

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Where Did Technology Neutral Go? »

28 November 2023 | Per Strömbäck

Remember when legislation was supposed to be “technology neutral”? We used to hear this a lot in the 2010s when policies like digital single market and copyright were discussed. Technology neutral was... »

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Move Fast and Ban Things »

12 September 2023 | Per Strömbäck

Move Fast and Break Things was the title of Jonathan Taplin’s 2017 book (if you haven’t read it, stop reading this blog and pick it up!). “Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s battle cry in the ... »

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Generative AI – The Hidden Centaur »

26 April 2023 | netopia

Will machines replace humans? That question has presented itself many times over the centuries. It has escaped no one that the current focus is around artificial intelligence. Can the machines become ... »

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