Some important notes and reflections from Monday’s class (Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion). – Ken says, “Digital representations are, by definition, approximations. They leave out a lot.” “What […]
The Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT featured an electronic nametag, which was slightly fancier and a whole lot chunkier than RFID-embedded nametags that I’ve seen at other conferences. Made by […]
In the 1980s, when I was in grade school, my parents gave me my first portable cassette player. On it, I listened to Alvin and the Chipmunks and Beethoven. When […]
North Korea will begin Internet service next year, according to Kim Sang-myung, chief of the North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity. At a symposium held at the (South Korean) National Assembly yesterday, Kim […]
Perhaps one of the merits of living in a tiny country is that waste-related policies make way for development of unique related products. Environmental consciousness is forced instead of being […]
Aside from the annoying facts that I can’t play old computer games or use my almost-new printer, Vista is terribly annoying when it comes to web sites laced with Active […]
While running some tests for the Open Net Initiative while I’m in Korea, I’ve interestingly discovered that most of the sites that are “blocked” for me are not because the […]
Spending time in a country where people are obsessed about virility, I think it is worthy to look into the alleged side-efffects of digital devices, in light of increasing infertility […]
D. Yvette Wohn 