Tag: Techno utopians
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On Computers, Creativity and Copyright
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Andrew Orlowski
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“We’d run out of ironic things to say” Neil Tennant Creative Commons is an intriguing experiment to granulize the rights a creator has over his or her work, and to formalize what today is largely spontaneous and informal. What we rarely see when it is discussed, is a genuine attempt to answer the question “Why…
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‘Sims school’ abandons books for laptops
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Andrew Orlowski
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Technology vendors have long viewed the state of Arizona as rich pickings. In addition to the Federal pork barrel, state tax payers have found over $60m dollars for IT investment. Now a high school in Tuscon is abandoning textbooks entirely, at the urging of the school district’s technology evangelist, who appears to have caught the…
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For ambulance-chasing bloggers, tragedy equals opportunity
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Andrew Orlowski
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No human disaster these days is complete without two things, both of which can be guaranteed to surface within 24 hours of the event. First, virus writers will release a topical new piece of malware. And then weblog evangelists proclaim how terrific the catastrophe is for the internet. It doesn’t seem to matter how high the…
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Space is the place, says Esther Dyson
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Andrew Orlowski
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Fly her to the moon. Please. In a remarkable case of life imitating satire, Esther Dyson has decided to host a space conference. No, we’re not making this up – and no, we can’t think of anyone more appropriate. “It’s not that there aren’t space conferences, but nothing as tacky and commercial as we want…
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What mistakes do Techno Utopians make?
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Andrew Orlowski
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In the Lion’s Den at the home of techno utopianism – the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School.… Read More
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Net religion vs Organized religion
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Andrew Orlowski
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Net religion bumped into real, organized religion again at the Berkman Center’s Votes, Bits Bytes conference today, held at Harvard University’s Law School. The subject couldn’t be more topical. In the recent elections, church-based groups got out the vote. Despite the view that a blogger’s vote is worth ten ordinary votes, real religion triumphed Internet…