Silicon Valley isn't completely without its critics, but to the outsider's eye, it seems to be a fairly insular environment with its own rules and codes of conduct. Increasingly, however, Silicon Valley makes products which are pivotal to many of our lives, and the characters — the investors...
"Safe is the suburbs." Andrew Keen
In research for our latest Future Passed piece, I came across the mention of "Dataland" and a spatial data-management system. Hardly the most exciting-sounding concept, couched in academic technobureaucratese from the late '70s, but I started...
After an ease in export restrictions, Google is making Google Earth, Picasa, and Chrome available for download in Syria — a country that been faced with international pressure and US sanctions over concerns of human rights abuses. Google released the same programs in Iran earlier this year after a similar export ban was lifted, and the company says that "free expression is a fundamental human...
Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined Bono, George Lucas, and a host of other celebrities in paying tribute to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs Sunday night, during a video presentation at the 16th Annual Webby Awards.
The ceremony began with a brief introduction from actors Justin Long and John Hodgman, who starred, respectively, as "Mac" and "PC" in Apple's famed "Get a Mac" ad campaign. They were followed by actor Richard Dreyfuss, who gave a strange and oftentimes discursive speech that began with a jab at Facebook and Google.
"If you're going to take our privacy away from us, why don't you tell us something private about yourselves," Dreyfus said to an awkwardly hushed reception. "And if you're going to change our world, why don't you pay for it, because it's theft." The actor, who voiced Apple's "Think Different"...
"Thank you for thinking different." President Barack Obama
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