Archive for the 'New Tech' Category
Determined to act swiftly to pass an $825 billion stimulus package, US President Barack Obama used his weekly address (on a revamped whitehouse.gov website) to give more details about this recovery plan. As it stands now, the proposal includes public spending programs in three high-tech areas :
computerization of medical records;
creation of smarter, high-tech enhanced electrical [...]
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Tags: Congress, Crisis, European Commission, European Union, France, Internet, New Tech, Obama, Politics, Reforms, Three Strikes, UK
Taylorism vs. Googlism
I talked about Nicholas Carr’s article a few days ago. According to his piece (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) the web is affecting our cognitive abilities. We are now fed with tons information but seldom sit and reflect about them; we google things but rarely research or memorize them anymore. Carr argues that this constant [...]
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Tags: Google, Philosophy, Psychology, Web
How the Web Is Changing Us
A few weeks ago, American writer Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial article in the Atlantic Monthly. In his piece “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he elaborated on an interesting hypothesis regarding the cognitive consequences of the web. Carr, a well-known critic of technological utopianism asked whether it could be that using the web slowly rewired [...]
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Tags: Google, Psychology, Reality, Web
Why this blog?
I wanted to have a sort of diary where I could write down observations and reflections about the way our society is being transformed by ICT, how they bring about social change.
I used to want to work in the music industry and grew more and more fascinated by the way the internet transforms the way [...]
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a diary about how new technologies redefine the polis by felix treguer
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News from the Wired Polis- File-Sharing good for cultural diversity and business November 11, 2009
- Enforcement of IPR... ACTA not the way to go November 6, 2009
- Europe misses out on a full protection of Net freedoms November 5, 2009
- Telcos turned into the police of the Net? November 4, 2009
- New battle fronts in sight for Net neutrality November 2, 2009
- More spectrum for wireless Internet in Europe? October 31, 2009
- EU to overhaul online privacy rules October 27, 2009
