Making money: Bitcoin and virtual currencies (Pt. 1) »

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29 November 2013 | Ralf Grötker

Just imagine that the guys running Wikipedia, Mozilla or Wordpress would start producing money. Indeed, this is what is happening since 2009. Just as the encyclopaedia Wikipedia relies on an open netw... »

Madelin: EU Parliament stopped better online law »

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20 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Editor Netopia

BRUSSELS The European Forum on Child Protection featured an impressive list of speakers in its full-day seminar in Brussels this past Tuesday. Robert Madelin and John Carr are familiar to Netopia’... »

Column: Personal 3D Printing – A Paradigm Shift for Objects »

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14 November 2013 | Mathilde Berchon, author

In the space of a few years, 3D printing has passed from the status of a tool for rapid industrial prototyping to become a superstar in the hopes of the “New Industrial Revolution.” For the first t... »

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... »

”Europe Must Break Up US Cloud Dominance” »

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29 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Netopia

Privacy online, crowd-funding and genetic engineering were the main topics at the fourth annual TedX Brussels which gathered 1500 delegates at the Bozar art centre. Netopia was there. BRUSSELS Tech... »

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 ... »

Gothenburg Book Fair – Digital Square »

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8 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Editor Netopia

The digital wave is sweeping in over the book business, just as it has done in so many other parts of the culture industry and with similar key elements: democratisation, disrupted value chains, copyr... »

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... »