The Independence Delusion »

24 February 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Last week I visited a telecoms tech conference. This time it was for the companies that supply telecom operators with hardware: fiber, routers, switches, those sorts of things. Always interesting to v... »

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Can We Make the Digital World Ethical? »

15 February 2014 | Per Strömbäck

The digital revolution connects people. Or at least, so we’re told. Our assumption about the internet and digital technology is that it is about people communicating with people. Great benefits, anyon... »

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It’s progress, deal with it »

5 February 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf comments a new book by MIT researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age (yes, Netopia will review it shortly). The question is whether ... »

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The Curse of Unlimited Information »

28 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

In today’s news, Swedish mash-up service Lexbase combines public data on home addresses with court data on convicted criminals, creating a map where you can see if your neighbour was ever in trouble w... »

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Schmidt Shares Netopia’s Concerns over Job Loss »

24 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

The Davos-connection. This week, I wrote about technology leading to job loss, the so-called Luddite fallacy. Not sure Google Chairman Eric Schmidt reads Netopia regularly (probably not, right?), but ... »

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Apple Faces Lawsuit for Selling Personal Info to Third Parties »

22 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

There has been a lot of criticism against how cloud companies abuse their customers privacy in doing their business. The phrase “If you’re not paying for a service, you’re not the consumer – you’re th... »

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Anticipatory Shipping – Amazon Looks Deep into the Crystal Ball »

19 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Many of us shook our heads thinking they had lost the marbles upon reading Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s and Kenneth Cukier’s theories on how prediction and probability will rule everything from insuranc... »

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POTUS Puts Leash on Surveillance Agency – Short Enough? »

18 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

It seems to never end – only this week we learned that the NSA’s Dishfire-system picks up close to 200 million text messages every day. Americans are not the only culprits, UK’s GCHQ also use the syst... »

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Open Tech Does Not Equal Open Society »

15 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

This week, Netopia contributor Ralf Grötker reviews Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything, Click Here. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in the digital society, in fact anyone interested in s... »

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Selling Shovels in a Gold Rush »

13 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

To make money in a gold rush, you want to be selling the shovels. In the current gold rush, those are digital however. I’m talking about Bitcoin of course, which is close to $1000 again after the big ... »

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