The Internet Imagined in 1969: In 1964, the futurist Arthur C. Clarke peered into the future and saw our connectedness coming. By 2000, he predicted, “We could be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be,” and “it will be possible in that age … for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali just as well as he could from London.” And then […]
Europe takes to streets over Acta: “Thousands of people take to the streets across Europe to demonstrate against a controversial anti-piracy agreement…”
BitTorrent Piracy Doesn’t Effect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds: “With their unconditional support for SOPA, PIPA and ACTA, Hollywood is pressing hard for new legislation to curb piracy. The studios want ‘rogue’ websites to be censored and are calling on Google and Internet providers to take responsibility. However, a new study reveals that movie industr […]
Why the Internet Gave This Man $1 Million. In a Single Day: In case you’ve missed it, a video game idea on Kickstarter has helped smash the site’s records by raising over one million dollars in a single day.More »
Planned Post-ACTA Repression In European Union: The Documents: “A European Commissioner responsible for the governing of 500 million people who refers to his constituents as “consumers” and describes complying at legal gunpoint as “cooperation” is just a small taste of the newspeak in the documents we find here, documents that are intended for the post-ACTA […]
La alfabetización informacional en las bibliotecas universitarias de Portugal. Visualización de los niveles de incorporación desde la información publicada en sus sitios Web