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... »
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... »
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 wer... »
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... »
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 ... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »