The Problem with TED »

29 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

I have a problem with TED. It’s like: you’re so smart, I’m so smart. That’s really West coast! I want to argue about ideas! The words of my US East coast intellectual friend echoed in my mind as I ... »

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Zeno’s Turtle Beats the Singularity »

28 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher who argued that our senses deceive us and that we must trust our mind only in trying to understand the world. A true rationalist. Zeno sought to convince the worl... »

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Guns as a freedom of speech issue »

25 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström expressed concern that disruptive technologies like 3d-printers could challenge the gun control regime. It would only take a few days before her worries wer... »

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Merkel’s Needle in Obama’s Haystack »

24 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

PEN International’s Larry Siems makes a strong case describing the problems with ubiquitous surveillance on the so-called Dissident Blog. Talking about the proverbial needle in the haystack, Siems sho... »

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Off with their’eads, Facebook! »

23 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Growing up the Eighties, snuff movies were urban legend in the school yard. Like WWF wrestling, some argued they weren’t real, some lied about having seen them, some might have actually come across a ... »

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Encrypted e-mail not secret »

22 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Anonymity is often regarded as the best way to secure one’s privacy online, except that the very clashes on a fundamental level with the way the network is set up as our every online action leaves tra... »

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Is digital jurisdiction Reding’s blind spot? »

18 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week I attended Commissioner Viviane Reding’s press conference and “citizen dialogue”, as reported in a separate story. Reding has an ambitious policy proposal for data protection which allows na... »

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Stallman on surveillance »

17 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Technology theory veteran Richard Stallman writes an op-ed in Wired Magazine which is well worth some attention. Stallman argues convincingly that digital surveillance has gone much too far and that g... »

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Deep packet inspection »

15 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Tech lingo transfers into the everyday vocabulary almost like osmosis. Whenever there is big news or debate over one digital technology or other, there is a new phrase for the public to pick up. You c... »

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Godin on Google+ shared recommendations »

14 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

American writer Seth Godin is a good candidate for what Evgeny Morozov calls “digital utopian”. Jaron Lanier uses the term “cybernetic totalist” for the same view: that the digital revolution is a for... »

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