Speculation on Digital Champion Commissioner »

5 September 2014 | Per Strömbäck

A leaked draft of the new European Commission suggests that there will not be one, but two new commissioners concerned with digital issues. One is the “Digital Champion” that the tech industry has dem... »

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Vive La France! Senate Report on Internet Governance »

6 August 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia readers will recall that this editor and two of the main contributors – main writer Peter Warren and interviewee professor Murray Shanahan – addressed the French Senate this spring, following ... »

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Snowden, Greenwald and Young Einstein »

16 July 2014 | Per Strömbäck

“If you can’t trust the governments of the world, who can you trust?” Thus said Young Einstein, played by Yahoo Serious in the 1988 Australian comedy movie with the same title. In this version, Einste... »

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Venice Juxtaposition (or the Smart Home Time Capsule) »

10 July 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Juxtapose. A fancy word from the art world, putting incompatible things together to create a contrast effect. Think Baz Luhrmann‘s apocalypse punk Romeo and Juliet. Or Duchamp’s “Fountain” (a urinal) ... »

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If Artificial Intelligence, What About Tax? »

4 July 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Welcome to Netopia, where technology meets society. In Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the protagonist Deckard fails at his job to identify "replicants," hum... »

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility »

29 June 2014 | Per Strömbäck

With great power comes great responsibility, so said Spider-Man (or was that Voltaire?). What greater power is there than knowing our most intimate relationships and emotions? It seems Facebook has th... »

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DG Digital – Is Post-Ideologic Technocracy the Way? »

19 June 2014 | Per Strömbäck

There is talk around Place Lux and Schuman that the new Commission should appoint a DG Digital to ensure that the digital perspective is represented in EU policy. But what is the digital perspective? ... »

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Netopia Speaks in House of Commons »

17 June 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Today, Netopia took part in a seminar on digital policy and intellectual property in the House of Commons in  London. My speech: Members of Parliament, Fellow Speakers, Ladies and Gentlemen, ... »

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Uncanny Valley, or: Are Robots the New Humans? »

11 June 2014 | Per Strömbäck

In her column about the blessings and perils of robot technology this week on Netopia, Birgit Hütten talks about human-like robots. That brings to mind the idea of the “uncanny valley”, which also app... »

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Fog Computing and the Man Who Bought The Pirate Bay »

27 May 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Our online lives run on cloud services and the cloud services run on data centers with hundreds of thousands of computers. Whether it’s an NSA bunker in Idaho or Facebook’s facility in Luleå, Sweden, ... »

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