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Scott Aughenbaugh

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web - 0 views

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    * Filmed: December 2007 * Running Time: 19.34 * Description: Kevin Kelly describes what the Internet is today and predicts where it is going. He begins with interesting statistics about how the Internet is used today, then makes some predictions of how the Internet will change in the next 10, 20 and 30 years. Draft 81 * Rating: Good: Interesting stats but it's a bit slow at times. * 7-Revolutions Sections: Technology, Information Processing.
Steven Elliott-Gower

Dangers of the Internet: Invisible Sieve | The Economist - 2 views

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    A review of Eli Pariser's The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You
Scott Aughenbaugh

Rives controls the Internet - 0 views

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    * Filmed: November 2006 * Running Time: 4:07 * Description: Short humorous poem about the Internet. Good way to break up a lecture. * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutions: Information.
Steven Elliott-Gower

A Plaything of Powerful Nations | The Economist - 1 views

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    Internet governance is under attack.: it may have to mend its ways to survive.
Morgan Reno

SuperPower: Visualising the internet - 1 views

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    Interactive feature on BBC that shows how the internet has spread across the world.
Nathan Phelps

One Second on the Internet - 2 views

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    This is an interesting infographic to demonstrate the volume of traffic on the internet. It covers instagram, facebook, skype, google searches, email, and so forth. It is a quick way to get a sense of the scope of information flow and connectivity.
Steven Elliott-Gower

Power Shift | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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    Summary: The nation-state may be obsolete in an internetted world. Increasingly, the resources and threats that matter disregard governments and borders. States are sharing powers that defined their sovereignty with corporations, international bodies, and a proliferating universe of citizens groups. Comment: The article is somewhat dated, but something of a classic.
Nathan Phelps

IT numbers from 2010 - 2 views

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    Interesting collection of data from 2010 concerning internet usage: number of websites, emails, tweats, etc. (Most followed on Twitter? Lady Gaga 7.7 M people)
Scott Aughenbaugh

Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren't the same thing - 0 views

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    Would you like paper or plasma? That's the question book lovers face now that e-reading has gone mainstream. And, as it turns out, our brains process digital reading very differently. Manoush Zomorodi, managing editor and host of WNYC's New Tech City, recalls a conversation with the Washington Post's Mike Rosenwald, who's researched the effects of reading on a screen.
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