The impact of advanced robotic engineering (part 1) »

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10 June 2014 | Birgit Hütten, external contributor

“The truck regarded them calmly, its receptors blank and impassive. It was doing its job. The planet-wide network of automatic factories was smoothly performing the task imposed on it five years befor... »

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... »

What do US and Euro makers have in common? (Part 1) »

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

I started MakingSociety in 2011 as an exploration notebook for showing my discoveries of the maker movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then, I have been living between Paris and San Francisc... »

Facebook is rotting from the inside out »

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3 April 2014 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Put simply, there’s too much content on Facebook. Unmanageable content creation and very little quality control are perfect ingredients for spammers and zombie ad networks. Until recently, there we... »

The Contagious Cost Disease »

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18 March 2014 | Ralf Grötker, journalist

I found a notice in my letter box the other day. The notice informed me that a postal delivery service, run by the private company pin Mail, had not been able to deliver a parcel. I was asked to go an... »

Will Robots Take Your Job? »

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20 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

The “Luddite fallacy” is the idea that increasing productivity leads to long-term job loss. The original Luddites (named after Ned Ludd, who allegedly smashed two stocking frames in 1779) rebelled aga... »

The Most Spammed Social Network: Facebook »

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18 December 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

I’m a Spammer. All I want you to do is click something. Load a page; at worst, fill out some details and sign up for something. Ult1.5m liked page is going for $30000.Ideally, I want your contact deta... »

Making Money: Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies (Pt. 2) »

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5 December 2013 | Ralf Grötker

Most press coverage on Bitcoin almost exclusively focuses on either online fraud (most recently the malware Cryptolocker, which forces its victims to pay a ransom in Bitcoin in order to get access to ... »