What’s the Future of the Internet? — It’s tough to predict the future. Instead, the future looks a lot like it does now: Faster data transfer rates, more social networking, ubiquitous mobile devices — and possibly dumber people from using all this stuff.
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Cory Doctorow gives the 2013 Sense About Science Lecture | Science | guardian.co.uk
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Physical Structure of the Internet
Good interview with Andrew Blum on his new book, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, about the physical structure of the Internet.
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Science Weekly Extra: Google Flu Trends
Google already has a window into our souls through our internet searches and it now has insight into our ailing bodies too.
The internet giant is using its vast database of individual search terms to predict the emergence of flu up to two weeks before government epidemiologists.
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