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7 November 2023 | Ralf Grötker

Review of The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto (Public Affairs, 2023) by Jonathan Taplin A clique of billionaires is destroying info... »

Analog Virus, Digital Disease »

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28 April 2020 | By Rhoda Crocket

The global pandemic has shown some extremes of rights and regulations protections. Amid the lockdowns we’ve seen privacy under sharpest attack, copyright abused, and questionable overreaches in civil ... »

GDPR – Springtime for Spammers »

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11 July 2019 | Rhoda Crocket, contributor

The much lauded GDPR has failed to achieve its hyped expectations. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led to loopholes, and interpretations moulded to suit the business practice. ... »

Don’t Hack the Messenger »

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8 March 2019 | Jane Whyatt, Journalist, Future Intelligence

Across the world people gathered last month to remember murdered journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée. They gathered in Silicon Valley’s Palo Alto, in Europe’s capital cities and the length and bre... »

Time to Close Safe Harbor »

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23 November 2018 | Guest Post by Jonathan Taplin, Author

Last month marked 20 years since President Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into law which introduced “Safe Harbor” for Internet Service Providers. In combination with t... »

Helsinki Think Tank Tackles Fake News, Novichok and Unknown Unknowns »

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17 July 2018 | Contributor, Jane Whyatt

As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin pose for the cameras at the Helsinki summit, the groundwork for their talks, at least on the NATO side, was laid by researchers at the nearby Center of Excellence on... »

The Illusion of a Ready-Made Future – Manifesto for Courage »

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9 November 2017 | Birgit Hütten, Guest Contributor

During his nine-month travel through the New World, French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) analyzed not just prisons but also the fabric of American life. Impressed by an apparently vital a... »

Spawning a Monster – Sharing Economy Disruption Examined »

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9 May 2014 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

In 1980 futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that consumers and producers would merge into prosumers. He might be proven right by the sharing economy. Start-ups are forming a peer-to-peer economy using... »

The Tyranny of Numbers »

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2 May 2014 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

What gets measured gets done is a popular principle in business management, first articulated by Austrian-American author/management consultant Peter F. Drucker. In the era of big data, the idea is ap... »

What do US and Euro makers have in common? (Part 2) »

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25 April 2014 | Mathilde Berchon, 3D-printing expert

Culture influence as a two-way street The hacker scene in Europe and the United States share a common history. Hacker spaces – these spaces where people interested in technology meet to hack things... »