Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy

Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy

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SOPA Strike   The wave of online protests against two Congressional bills that aim to curtail copyright violations on the Internet is gathering momentum. Wikipedia is the latest Web site to decide to shut on [...]

Bills to Stop Web Piracy Invite a Protracted Battle

Bills to Stop Web Piracy Invite a Protracted Battle

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It’s not a battle between Hollywood and tech, its people who get the Internet and those who don’t.   When the Obama administration announced on Saturday its opposition to major elements of two Congressional bills [...]

1 Percent versus the 99 Percent–A Case for Open Access

1 Percent versus the 99 Percent–A Case for Open Access

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Today, this one article is cutting a $32 hole in my poor grad student pocket.   My November trip to DC comes at a perfect time for me to escape the craziness near the end [...]

Policy Key to Weather Cleantech Crisis

Policy Key to Weather Cleantech Crisis

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“The clean energy industry in the United States is indeed poised for crisis   “The clean energy industry in the United States is indeed poised for crisis, as the bulk of the nation’s major federal [...]

More And More People Speak Up Against SOPA

More And More People Speak Up Against SOPA

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Tumblr went so far as to blackout their entire dashboard   With the hearings this morning (more on that later), there were also more statements publicly made against SOPA this morning. Two key ones are, [...]

Yes, SOPA Breaks The Internet:

Yes, SOPA Breaks The Internet:

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By Breaking The Belief In Trust And Sharing That Is The Internet   Venture capitalist Brad Burnham has a brilliant blog post that explains how SOPA really breaks the internet. It isn’t just the technical [...]

Stop the Great Firewall of America

Stop the Great Firewall of America

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The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom   Sign the Global Save the Internet Petition- IT China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress, under pressure to take action against [...]

Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?

Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?

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Will the future be filled with cool technologies and endless opportunities or will our own creations lead to eventual doom? I tend to think the former. Technology has seemingly endless ability to improve the health, [...]

The insanity of patent warfare

The insanity of patent warfare

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What a shame that a precept conceived to incentivise innovation, has been corrupted into threatening it Google surprised many industry watchers last week with the announcement that it is purchasing Motorola’s mobile phone division for [...]

Patently Obvious: Pitiful Patent System Has to Go

Patently Obvious: Pitiful Patent System Has to Go

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The patent system in both Europe and the United States is the biggest threat to innovation in the world today At the risk of stating the obvious, I’ll say this right up front: The patent [...]

When the Internet Thinks It Knows You

When the Internet Thinks It Knows You

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ONCE upon a time, the story goes, we lived in a broadcast society. In that dusty pre-Internet age, the tools for sharing information weren’t widely available. If you wanted to share your thoughts with the [...]

The Food Crisis

The Food Crisis

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Food prices are soaring to record levels, threatening many developing countries with mass hunger and political instability. Finance ministers of the Group of 20 leading economies discussed the problem at a meeting in Paris last [...]