Permanent Record: they spy on us 24 hours a day, yet we don’t care about privacy
Thanks to Edward Snowden we know that all our actions are under control, yet we act as if nothing happens.
Losers before making it big
Look at this picture: if you didn’t know that this is Mark Zuckerberg, you would think: “who’s this loser?” Kitsch plastic slippers, baggy jeans, sitting on a hub between a box and a photocopier, with an expression that conveys everything but charisma and self-confidence on his face; the classic nerd, who would have certainly been […]
Derrick de Kerckhove: «In the future the news will read us»
Derrick de Kerckhove (Wanze, may 30th 1944) is a Canadian-naturalized Belgium-born sociologist and journalist. Sociologist, journalist and scientific director of Media Duemila, he directed the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology of the University of Toronto from 1983 to 2008. He is the author of “The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence” and University Professor […]
Ten questions about the future of news
Ten questions to think about the present and try to preconize the future of journalism. We worked on them together with Guido Giraudo, we reasoned with the aim of opening a door on a clearer horizon about how news is first written, then provided and, finally, consumed by the readers. This issue is anything but […]
Snowden, one man against the Orwellian surveillance
by Alessandro Nardone “So far so good,” wrote someone on Twitter from parts of Washington. Sarcastic emphasis to the representatives of the GOP hardliners, led by Senator John McCain, who predicted the apocalypse, if it has been unplugged at the NSA intercepts, reducing themselves to raise the specter faded “another September 11” despite the evidence […]
Wiretapping, objective is influence our behavior
by Alessandro Nardone Since I published The Predestined, who also is a novel, I receive daily messages from people who, after reading it, I wonder if the supervision to which we undergo stringent NSA is really so, or if I was to emphasize it in operation the plot. They are incredulous. On the other hand, […]