Today, British PM Gordon Brown issued a fully open and public apology for the treatment of Alan Turing, whom his own government betrayed and drove to suicide far before most of us were ever born. Regardless of the timeframe, Turing played a part in all our lives today through his work with early computers and [...]
(Flux Capacitors set to 2007!) While at first glance, this seems like your average 2012-style semi-psychotic rant, Andrew Keen introduces his book titled The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, and he’s actually got some good points. The funny thing is, this speech took place in 2007. It’s interesting how [...]
Early this morning, Twitter dropped off the face of the Internet for a couple of hours. When I noticed the distinct lack of chatter I went to see if anyone was still awake on Facebook. That wasn’t loading either. I started wondering if maybe both had gone down simultaneously, since I still had data streaming [...]