Is “virtual reality” coming back into fashion? This technology involves replacing sensory input from the outside world with synthetic digital signals through goggles, ear plugs, gloves and similar. It... »
Your online newspaper is different from mine. That’s right, we can go to the same website and get different versions. With cookies, websites keep track of user behavior and adjust the content to fit t... »
This week’s column by Waldemar Ingdahl discusses the proposition that robots could take over all sorts of jobs from humans, not only the ones we have learned to associate with automation (such as manu... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
Google’s newest venture, Calico, aims for nothing less than the eternal life of humans. If you didn’t think the search giant had high ambitions before, now they are literally cosmic. I think the phras... »
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... »
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... »
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... »