Archive for the 'Issues' Category
Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
November 3rd, 2008It is difficult to believe that the web has become such an integral part of our society within the relatively short space of 5,000 days. Since its inception in 1991 we have become increasingly dependant on it and still the technology is snowballing at a colossal rate.
If like me you are interested in where we […]
Nanny State?
October 17th, 2008Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has proposed legislation which would give the security services the power to amass a giant database of all emails and phone calls in the UK. Emotive topics like terrorism, murder, child abuse etc. have been bandied about to justify this initiative and while Smith defends the proposed action with the claim […]
One Laptop Per Child
June 7th, 2008“Why would a kid in the developing world need a laptop…take the word laptop and substitute the word education…eliminate poverty create peace and work on the environment”
Nicholas Negroponte
This is the sentiment which drives Professor Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC initiative, Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab first launched his non-profit making enterprise in January 2005 […]
Net Neutrality
June 6th, 2008The ethos that shaped the internet and made it the success it is today is under threat. Tim Berners-Lee’s gift of a free democratic World Wide Web provided a facility for personal and corporate interaction which promoted creativity, commercial enterprise and freedom of speech but all that could change in the not too distant future. […]
