The Contagious Cost Disease »

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... »

Netopia Podcast on Digital Ethics »

12 March 2014 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

Do you know about Eliza? It was a 1960’s computer science experience on psycho-therapy and it turned out that patients preferred interacting with the crude algorithms of the technology of the time to ... »

IoT-summit: Privacy by design the way forward »

5 March 2014 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

BRUSSELS Forum Europe organises the Fifth Annual Internet of Things Summit in Brussels this week. Netopia takes a special interest in this event as its topic is close to the recent report “Can We Make... »

You’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone: Report from Future Media Lab »

24 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

This week, the fourth Future Media Lab took place in Brussels. It is a workshop and seminar for the news and magazine industry. Netopia attended to take the pulse on how these industries tackle the di... »

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 agai... »

Forget Privacy, Probability is the New Nightmare »

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8 January 2014 | Jane Whyatt, journalist

Jane Whyatt profiles Viktor Mayer Schönberger It sounds like a nightmare – ten years’ worth of professional contacts, emails and reports accidentally deleted on a computer. But for Viktor Mayer Sch... »

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 to something. Ultimately I want your contact details. I want them in order to bait you i... »

Opt-out of Solutionism: Peeping inside the mind of Evgeny Morozov »

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11 December 2013 | Jane Whyatt, journalist

Just as the Twitterpics appeared of the statue of Lenin being dragged to the ground in Kiev, Evgeny Morozov was telling his London fans “Training dissidents to use social media and apps just allows re... »

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

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5 December 2013 | Ralf Grötker

Most press coverage on Bitcoin almost exclusively focusses 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... »

Safe Space for Kids Online, Make Like a Penguin »

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3 December 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Editor Netopia

Club Penguin is a virtual world for children and was designed to be a safe online space for children and now has more than 200 million members. Netopia had a chat with Club Penguin’s European director... »