[also brought on FAIR Denmark]
Facebook has launched Internet.org, maybe a solution that will provide internet access to lots of people who need it? In this post, I'll explain what I think about it, because certainly it doesn't seem like a project we can just ignore.
Others are also …
Read the rest of this entry »There is a new book coming up with a very remarkable abstract, to be released on March 5, 2013:
In the very near future, “smart†technologies and “big data†will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve …
Read the rest of this entry »I've been coding a lot of ASP.NET lately using the whole Microsoft portfolio of dev tools, and I'm in total shock. I had expected to hate it, but not from rational reasoning, but rather because they made it. I thought it was sleek enterprise level stuff. But I was wrong... …
Read the rest of this entry »As a follow-up to this post featuring predictions by leading scientists from the year 1900, here are my predictions for the year 2107... or around that time:
Large parts of the earth have grown unpopulated due to starvation and war. The borders around rich countries have been totally shut.
Energy …
Read the rest of this entry »Danish arty-farty movie company Zentropa has made a movie called AFR. It features Anders Fogh Rasmussen having a love affair with a fictional character. He discovers the wonders of being gay and giving away money to Africa. Then unfortunately he gets murdered under mysterious circumstances.
Anyways, this …
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