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7 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Following up on yesterday’s post on the work of Evgeny Morozov, in his most recent book To Save Everything, Click Here, the writer digs deeper into some of the concepts discussed in the Die Zeit colum... »

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Morozov’s Three Principles for Seeing Through Internet Mumbo-Jumbo »

6 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week’s best read was US-based Belarusian writer Evgeny Morozov’s deconstruction of the popular internet intellectuals discourse in Die Zeit (which graciously provides the original English version... »

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Silicon Valley’s Favourite Intellectual Property »

5 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Intellectual property rights online are obviously a topic of hot debate as the digital domain expands; just think about ACTA and SOPA/PIPA. The so-called reformists are in most cases pirate ideologist... »

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Virtual Dejá Vu »

3 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

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... »

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Filter Bubbles and Algorithms See Right through You – or Do They? »

2 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

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... »

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Are Machines Humans? »

29 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

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... »

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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 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... »

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