Tag: technology
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tweetping – Internet as a NOT global good…
Go to http://tweetping.net/#. See the map of the Tweets worldwide and in real time. Stay there for some time. Look at the map again. What appears in front of the screen is something all Internet proponents know but are not willing to admit: the Internet is NOT a global good! It is a rather limited…
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Toyota, cars without drivers, responsibility
Toyota has given a taste of self-drive car safety technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week. (1) It sounds great. I have one question though: Who will be held responsible in case of an accident? The human non-driver, the company or… the car?
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Instagram, “freedom”, freedom, illusions…
Facebook’s photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users’ photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January, they cannot opt out. The move riled social media users, with one likening it to a “suicide note”. Most users have fiercely reacted to…
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Pigeons win Broadband in data transfer rate. True. Scary.
Everything is a matter of perception. And it is true that the perception of the “fast Internet we cannot live without” is part of our modern culture. However it takes a small pigeon to see more clearly what your blind eyes cannot. It is true. In many occasions have pigeons won the locan Broadband Internet…
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