Freedom from distraction may in fact be the new, sought after bourgeois luxury. In… “The Joy of Quiet,” Pico Iyer says that the future of travel lies in “black hole resorts” where you pay exorbitant amounts for remote beautiful rooms that are offline. The principle is that freedom from the Internet is so rare and exotic and impossible that it is becoming a commodity: It’s not iPhones or iPads we have to worry about buying, but peace from them. Freedom, then, is a poor man’s fabulous hotel room on a cliff on a beach without wireless.
Homeland Security Shuts Down Dozens of Websites Without Court Order
Homeland Security Shuts Down Dozens of Websites Without Court Order
Because feeling up grandma wasn’t enough, DHS has expanded their purview to include warrantless actions in the name of enforcing copyright.
fimoculous: Recognize her? I know you do. She is who you see when you accidentally mis-type a letter in a url and you get that domain-squatted page. She might be the most viewed person on the internet who no one knows.
Read moreThe Five Billionth Device Will Plug Into the Internet Any Day Now
The Five Billionth Device Will Plug Into the Internet Any Day Now
From Popular Science:
While that number largely consists of PCs – there are some 1 billion connected in the world that connect to the Internet regularly – and mobile devices like smartphones, future growth will be driven by machine-to-machine technologies like smart grid-enabled appliances, e-book readers, public safety systems, traffic and parking control devices, sensor networks, Web-enabled TVs, and automobiles that sync up to the Net. IMS also projects that by 2020 there will be 6 billion cell phones in the world, most of which will have Internet connectivity.
Revisiting Feed Magazine
A roster of talent that included Clay Shirky, Ana Marie Cox, Josh Marshall, and Alex Ross in 1995 – not to mention founders Steven B. Johnson and Stefanie Syman – it’s been to writing over the past 15 years what Second City was to comedy in the 1970s and early ‘80s.
Tim O’Reilly Delivers His State of the Internet Operating System
Tim O’Reilly Delivers His State of the Internet Operating System
If you get excited by terms like “cloud computing” then this link’s for you.
The Internet is no topic like cellphones or videogame platforms or artificial intelligence; it’s a topic like education. It’s that big. Therefore beware: to become a teacher, master some topic you can teach; don’t go to Education School and master nothing. To work on the Internet, master some part of the Internet: engineering, software, computer science, communication theory; economics or business; literature or design. Don’t go to Internet School and master nothing. There are brilliant, admirable people at Internet institutes. But if these institutes have the same effect on the Internet that education schools have had on education, they will be a disaster.
David Gelernter, Edge #313
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