Australia’s newly-announced internet "filtering" plan relies on an unprecedented interpretation of the law and will do little to prevent the spread of child abuse material.
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Tim Berners-Lee on the rise of walled gardens
Inventor of the world wide web says that throughout the history of the internet, people had been concerned about the emergence of apparently dominant giants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2012/apr/18/tim-berners-lee-walled-gardens-audio
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The Catholic Geek: Communications in an Internet World 05/29 by We Built That Network | Technology Podcasts
Host Declan Finn has on Sean McCune, discussing safe secure methods of internet communications.
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Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for? – podcast | Technology | The Guardian
Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it?
Tagged with internet of things smart cities smart homes technology guardian
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How memes create social and political change – Chips with Everything tech podcast | Technology | The Guardian
We talk to internet culture experts about how memes are used to generate change in society and politics
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The Joy of Missing Out
The burdens of digital technology Why more information doesn’t help us make better decisions The burdens that digital technology relieve us from, but we might not want to get rid of Why discomfort is healthy Why the internet makes us feel busier and more rushed than we really are How sharing our life on the web prevents us from developing a unique identity How the iPad is making your kids more distractible and less empathetic How digital technology may be producing a generation of terrible actors How virtual reality and artificial intelligence will compound the problems we’re already seeing with technology Christina’s month-long break from the internet and what she learned from that experience Christina’s additions to our Fighting FOMO Questions Tactics and tools to help you stop using the internet so much
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Darius Kazemi: the Oscar Wilde of internet bots – Tech Weekly podcast | Technology | The Guardian
How Twitter and Tumblr bots use algorithmic skill to bring wit, warmth and a critical eye to internet culture
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2014/dec/17/darius-kazemi-bot-tech-weekly-podcast
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Vint Cerf: Internet Future | Quoracast
Vint Cerf is Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet.
Questions:
What will the world look like in 5 years?
What are the biggest problems associated with rapid spread and development of the Internet?
Does blockchain technology present any solutions to these problems
Why are cats so interested in blockchain?
Are you worried about artificial intelligence like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk?
What is the “digital dark age”?
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Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It
This inaugural lecture by Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as a signal example.
Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is also the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
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Art in the age of the internet - Tech Weekly Podcast | Technology | The Guardian
With two major exhibitions on net-art opening in London we take a look at how artists have navigated the digital era and why big data is a powerful material in the creation of contemporary artworks
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2016/feb/04/art-in-the-age-of-big-data
Tagged with technology internet digital media art and design media culture