Tagged with Computers

The Internet as built will always be subject to government control and corporate domination. We must smash the fiction that it is some sort of uncontrollable, decentralized free-for-all, so that we can get on with creating something else that is. I've decided to convene a summit called Contact. (more)

We tend to think of our technologies in terms of the applications they offer right out of the box instead of how we might change them.  We are content to learn what our computers already do instead of what we can make them do.  This isn't even the way a kid naturally approaches a video game. (more)

Efforts to extend access to "data" will create a "data divide" like the "digital divide" between those who have access to data and those who don't. And these divisions don't simply stop with the provision of digital "access." People also need to be in a position to actually make use of the Internet or data in ways that are beneficial for them.     (more)