Google: Information Does Not Want to Be Free Anymore »

27 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Today’s Digital program at the Gothenburg Book Fair featured a presentation by Google’s Santiago de la Mora on cloud-based e-books. E-books are now part of the Google Play-service, but as opposed to a... »

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Moore vs Baumol »

25 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The computing power doubles on average every eighteen months. This principle is known as Moore’s law, after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore. Actually, it is the number of transistors on an integrated... »

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Digital books »

24 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

How does technology shape the book business? Is it technology, readers, authors, libraries, book sellers or publishers that drive evolution? In one aspect, the book is itself a technology – a distribu... »

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Eternal Life through Data »

22 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Google’s newest venture Calico aims for nothing less than eternal life of humans. If you didn’t think the search giant had high ambitions before, now they are literally cosmic. I think the phrase “thi... »

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The Mirage of Net Neutrality – Netopia in European Voice »

19 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Today, Netopia writes an opinion comment in European Voice. It discusses the focus on so-called net neutrality in the Commission’s policy proposal on the digital single market. Net neutrality is th... »

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Truly Digital – Open Data is Nothing Without a Narrative »

18 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

One of the best things about the internet is that it brings so many big questions and big ideas. Will technology provide growth, freedom, democracy? Is crowd-funding the answer to investment? Is democ... »

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You Are Not a Gadget »

17 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Today, Paul Frigyes reviews Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future? Lanier’s previous book You Are Not a Gadget – a Manifesto was published in 2010, the same year Netopia started as a Swedish edition. And... »

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Information Dominance Center »

16 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Don’t tell me the NSA doesn’t have a sense of humour. NSA chief General Keith Alexander built his control room inspired by the flight deck on Star Trek’s spaceship Enterprise. And named it the Informa... »

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J’accuse Section 230 »

13 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Speaking of network neutrality, one of the related ideas is safe haven for intermediaries. This was first introduced in US leglislation by the Clinton administration in the so-alled Digital Millennium... »

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Some Data Packets More Equal than Others »

12 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The veil was lifted at last today for the world to see actual policy suggestions from the European Commission on the so-called Connected Continent, a. k. a. Digital Single Market. The main topics of d... »

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