In the past decade, we’ve seen an unprecedented rise of powerful social networks, connecting millions or even billions of people who can now communicate almost instantaneously. But…
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In the 1970s and 1980s, a generous spirit suffused the internet, whose users were few and far between. But today, the net is ubiquitous, connecting billions of…
The lecture honores the memory and work of Aaron Swartz, the programmer and activist who took his own life on Jan. 11, 2013 at the age of…
Jacob Appelbaum, a core developer of the Tor Project, is the co-author, along with Julian Assange, of the 2012 book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the…
The Futurica Trilogy is a work of philosophy, sociology and futurology in three closely related movements. The first volume, The Netocrats, deals with human history from the…
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory…
According to cyber security expert Mikko Hypponen, we might not be in a cyber war but we are in a cyber arms race, and the governments involved…
The growth and impact of Facebook is mind blowing, even for an industry that considers “overnight success” to be a long-range goal. Founded in a Harvard dorm…
The internet is a damn drug and we are on it. Everyone. This statement of Alexander Bard summarizes his quite provocative keynote speech best. He talked about…
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub – so why can’t governments? In this…
Michael Wesch focuses on how we as the generation of Web 2.0, connect with the world differently due to new media such as YouTube. With thousands of…
