This article from Digital Trends describes how the “father of the internet”, Tim Berners-Lee, is trying to “de-centralize” the world-wide web, that is, take power back from a handful of companies who basically dominate huge portions of web activity and expropriate user’s personal data for their own private profits. This is the essence of “antidisambiguation,” a word […]
UK Copyright Extension Direct Assault on 3D Printing
Here’s another example of the fight taking shape between the old capitalist class and the emerging potentials of new technologies. Just a reminder: These are the days when the the old relations of production become fetters on the new productive forces. In order for these forces to fully develop, the fetters must burst. From […]
Glenn Greenwald on Why Privacy Matters; TED Talk
Video courtesy of NPR’s TED Radio Hour Thumbnail image courtesy of TED Conference via flickr
Edward Snowden and Citizenfour
On June 9th 2013 Edward Snowden revealed himself to be the man responsible for leaking classified information from the National Security Agency to the news media. The rest of the story should be pretty familiar to everybody by now (although this clip from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver suggests otherwise). If you are one of the […]