Canada’s International Development Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center are convening a conversation today and tomorrow at Harvard on the future of information and communication… Read More »Harvard Forum: ICT and gender
NYU Professor Clay Shirky published an essay, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable“, that suggested that journalists needed to radically rethink the assumptions that have made… Read More »Clay Shirky and accountability journalism
Many of the conversations at the Berkman Center orbit the topic of technological determinism. While no one will actually admit to being a technological determinist,… Read More »Building the future of translation, online
I had the pleasure of sharing the stage at Ars Electronica’s symposium on “Cloud Intelligence” with Stephen Downes and Anders Sandberg. I wasn’t able to… Read More »Stephen Downes, Anders Sandberg on Cloud Intelligence
A couple of folks were kind enough to ask me for notes and slides from my talk at Ars Electronica’s symposium on The Cloud today.… Read More »The Cloud, and useful illusions
We start the seminar at Ars Electronica on cloud computing in darkness, which David Sasaki reminds us, is the state of nature. We think of… Read More »David Sasaki maps the brave new world of the cloud