Tag: Techno utopians
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Netizens: white, wealthy and middle class (and full of it)
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Andrew Orlowski
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“The Internet is becoming more and more widespread and will increasingly represent a scientific random sample of the population,” claims ICANN’s newest board member, Joi Ito. Quite what scientific experiments he will wish to perform, once the desired sample size has been reached, remains a mystery. But like many people who spend too long in…
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How Wikipedia ‘will make universities obsolete’
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Andrew Orlowski
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For most web surfers, the Wikipedia is simply an occasionally useful online resource that needs to be taken with a huge sackful of salt. For others, it’s a poor excuse for a real encylopedia. But for its proponents, it’s nothing short of revolutionary! It’s Emergent, you see. A column by veteran tech writer Al Fasoldt…
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One blogger is worth ten votes – Harvard man
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Andrew Orlowski
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Working in his secret laboratory at Harvard University, a Fellow of the prestigious institution has come up with a formula that rocks electoral maths to its core. Former software developer Dave Winer has worked out that one weblogger is worth ten ordinary voters, and he revealed the results of his complex calculations to Wired this…
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Chris Anderson makes me a bet
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Andrew Orlowski
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“Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation.” Chris Anderson, Wired I was really calling the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, to check up on which weird and interesting drugs he was taking when he wrote the sentence you see above you. [* answer…
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Ex ICANN chief spotted in Low Earth Orbit
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Andrew Orlowski
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Esther Dyson has made one of her occasional swings past Earth, with Salon.com’s Farhad Manjoo making radio contact as her low earth orbit took her over San Francisco. The former ICANN chief has lost none of eccentricity on her on her voyage through the galaxy. “Let’s get real!,” she proclaims – an alert for regular…