4 years ago I founded a small social media constancy. The idea was to manage the coming deluge of social media for businesses. Turned out to be a pretty good idea. At first many businesses didn’t believe that social media was going to be as important as it has become. What seemed completely obvious to [...]
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Innovation Is the Only Way Forward
We at The Future 500 believe absolutely in the idea that innovation, constant innovation, is a key element to the 21st Century. Those who embrace the chaos of innovation and the the order of disorder will succeed, some beyond their wildest dreams. Those who do not will be left behind. This goes for countries, companies, [...]
A New “Digital Cold War” Emerges
Last week in Dubai, Russia, China, the Arab countries, and much of Africa voted to end the Internet as an international , free and open space. They have voted instead to allow for the partitioning of the Net, in an effort to keep information – and people well regulated. (From PCMAG.com) “The Internet Society came [...]
Print Your Organs
Biotech startup aims to use bioink in 3D printer to grow human tissue and someday, organs. My father has talked about this for a couple of decades. Though his taste is suspect in many things, his long term predictability skills are pretty darn good. He was talking about the buying things over the Internet in [...]
Let Freedom Ring Online (And everywhere else)
A new bill moving through Congress seeks to make it harder for authoritarian regimes to clamp down on social media. If a company wishes to sell software or hardware to an “internet repressive regime” it will have to report it. Good thing we didn’t pass SOPA I guess. That’d be embarrassing. (From Fierce Government IT) [...]
Is CISPA Worse than SOPA?
The establishment fears the internet so deeply it is breathtaking. It is doing all that it can to lock down the freest place in the world, cyberspace. Unsurprisingly Anon has a problem CISPA. Regardless of what you think of these guys (and I’ve got some serious issues) the video below raises important questions.
‘Earmark’ Was Most-Searched Term on Google During Republican Debate
There are so many things to love about the internet, but what I may love the most is the ability to pull actionable information in real time. I spend a good amount of my time looking for and identifying trends. That’s my job and thankfully there are many free tools out there to help me [...]
Internet Privacy and the Power of Mobile Phone Companies
Human Rights and Information Technology, Doing Well and Doing Good Historically, telephony has been highly regulated while the Internet has not. With the convergence of mobile telephony and the Internet, a host of regulatory and legal frameworks that manage spectrum and protect individual rights are being challenged for inadequacy. In the developed world, governments fighting [...]
We need an Internet of Energy
We Need an Internet of Energy. We’ve all heard of the “prosumer” -that is the individual who not only consumes goods and services but also creates goods and services or content. Typically the term is used to refer to those who produce online content i.e. in reference to someone who creates a blog or [...]
India Internet law draws fire
Indian Internet users have begun to discover the limits imposed by a new law on web content, encountering interruptions in their surfing in the form of screens displaying a message that content has been blocked under instruction from the Ministry of Telecom. Human rights activists, bloggers and Internet users are lashing out at the [...]
