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Flâneurs and the "Gastronomy of the Eye"
On route to explaining why cyberflânerie isn't flourshing online, EvgenyMorozov rekindles the joys of real-world flânerie:"Engaging the history of flânerie may be a good way to start answering these...
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Should the UN Run the Internet?
A worldwide battle for control of the Internet looms, which could soon pit the U.S. against the rest of the world. Starting this week in Geneva, at the World Conference on International...
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KONY 2012 and the Global Hive Mind
The speed with which KONY 2012 went viral around the world has been stunning. Even if you don’t love the politics of Invisible Children's "Stop Kony" campaign, it’s hard to find fault with the...
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The Internet's Cult of Now
There is only one measure of time that matters to the current Internet generation: the here and now. The Cult of Now is influencing everything that we do and every interaction we have on the Internet,...
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Is the Internet Becoming the Bot Net?
On the Internet, we’ve reached a tipping point where more than 50% of all Internet traffic is no longer generated by humans– instead, it's generated by a motley mix of search engine spiders, bots,...
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The Internet, IPv6 and a World of Abundance
The size of the Internet just expanded exponentially on June 6, a date also known as World IPv6 Launch Day. Internet Service Providers and leading Internet companies like Facebook and Google are...
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X Marks the Spot of the First Cyber War
DARPA– the government organization that brought you the Internet – is back, this time with an audacious five-year, $110 million research initiative to militarize cyberspace. Called Plan X, DARPA's plan...
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2012, Year of the Chinese Internet Industry Growing Beyond Borders: It Is...
What is currently planned at Alibaba, Tencent, Sina, and Baidu worth an additional paper. My duty is to continue the story published last year and called “Chinese Internet industry ready to grow beyond...
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Are We Ready for an Internet Cold War?
As the threat of a cyber war with the Chinese becomes more imminent, it's fascinating to consider how much the early stage of this cyber war actually resembles the Cold War of the nuclear age. Instead...
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Charles Darwin Doesn't Want You to #UNPLUG from the Internet
If you’re like most Americans, you probably spent most of the long Fourth of July weekend hanging out at a family BBQ, watching baseball, enjoying the fireworks and… obsessively checking your digital...
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