Column: The Philosophy of 3D Printing »

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8 November 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Part of Netopia's upcoming report 3D Printing and Intellectual Property, to be released on 13 November 2013. The Promise of Abundance The promise of the internet revolution was to provide everyo... »

Column: The Digital Ambulance Chasers »

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31 October 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Markets typically follow a well-understood path of chaos, organisation, regulation and reregulation. The internet is no different and has gone from early days of loose leaf HTML cobbled together webpa... »

Column: Online Marketplace Delayed »

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25 October 2013 | Ralf Groetker, Journalist

Let’s monetize the internet! This is what critic Jaron Lanier, formally known as virtual reality-evangelist, suggests in his latest book Who owns the future?. The problem, Lanier thinks, is that more ... »

Column: Geek So Cool »

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10 October 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Geekery may be about to shift from bits and bytes to legal codification and everyone is affected. We are talking the hottest kids on the block - namely Copyright, Piracy and Privacy. Recently Vice ... »

Column: Online Privacy – Fixing the Wrong Problem »

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3 October 2013 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

This summer, I received a phone call from an employee at my bank. The chap on the other end asked if I recently had bought a number of kitchen and bathroom appliances in California. Which I hadn’t. My... »

Column: Robots Will Take Your Job – Threat or Blessing? »

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26 September 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Fear and discontent has been turned against the machines since the dawn of the Industrial Age. The Luddites rebelled in nearly 19th century England, named after the weaver Ned Ludd who smashed the sto... »

Is Deleting Abusive Comments Stifling Freedom of Speech? »

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19 September 2013 | Helienne Lindvall, Columnist The Guardian

Earlier this summer Twitter came under heavy criticism in the UK, after a number of women had been subjected to bomb and rape threats on the site. It all started with the seemingly innocuous feat a... »

Column: Minitel and the French Telecom Revolution »

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12 September 2013 | Michael Streeter, Journalist

Last year France Telecom – now called Orange – finally pulled the plug on its antiquated information system called Minitel. This very French invention, which first appeared in 1981, had been very pop... »

The Follow Economy, pt. 2 »

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5 September 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

It was only four years ago that Ashton Kutcher and CNN Breaking News battled to become the first Twitterers to reach the 1 million followers landmark. Unsurprisingly the most followed person today is ... »

Italy’s Digital Conundrum »

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29 August 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

The dire issues of the Italian economy, judicial problems and political turmoil are reflected in the nation's internet policy debate. The difficult development of the Italian web, a good showcase of t... »