Category: Talks
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A brief keynote to Westminster Digital Forum
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My name is Andrew Orlowski from The Register, I was looking for an illustration to try and bring a very old debate to have a fresh perspective, and I came across this in my library, which is an extraordinary book written by a gentleman called Yoneji Masuda. The book was written in 1980 and it was the Japanese plan to computerise Japanese Society on Cybernetic lines. It was a very modest project. It would have cost about $65 billion … Read More
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On Google and erasing your identity
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I appeared on BBC World Service’s Newshour to discuss Eric Schmidt’s advice to erase your digital identity every few years. Click here to listen.
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On the occasion of the Pirate Party’s first UK address
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Opening Comments for the In The City P2P Panel, Manchester, on Sunday 18 October:
… Read MoreAlthough Rik [Falkvinge]’s in front of us in flesh and blood, he wouldn’t exist – the Pirate Party wouldn’t exist – without enforcement policies being the primary goal of the music business. The programme bills this as “two sides of a debate”, but as a journalist I get incredibly suspicious when I hear there are just two sides, because usually there are two, three or four
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Fixing the UK’s broadband crisis: Spiked’s Traffic jam debate
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If you throw a rock in the air in London on any day of the working week, chances are it will land on a New Media conference. These are primarily social gatherings for the same group of academics and media hangers-on, and you can bet they’ll be Twittering.
(I’m often invited – usually it’s because they think I’ll oblige them by saying something stupid, like “The Internets is Evil”. It isn’t hard to decline.)
But apart from the inanity and … Read More
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A monkey hangers guide to Net Neutrality
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My presentation to the Westminster eForum on Net Neutrality. I’ll turn this into an embeddable slide show eventually, honest.
For now, see The Register for transcript and slides.… Read More