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Big Data, Big Brother, Big Questions
June 17, 2013
Of the many questions raised by revelations of the huge scale of the U.S. government’s secret communications surveillance programs, one deserves more attention than it has been getting: How effective are they? To hear senior officials tell it, collecting billions of phone records and monitoring ... Read more »
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Internet: the Next Step in Mars Exploration
June 3, 2013
Mars is clearly the next great target for our species. We’re seeing signs of this target all around us, from the project called Inspiration Mars, which intends to launch a manned Mars flyby in 2018, to the Dutch effort called Mars One, and the call ... Read more »
Who Will Check Your Email When You're Gone?
May 2, 2013
As frustrating as it is when Google closes down powerful products — I wrote recently about the demise of the excellent Google Reader program — the company is nonetheless ahead of the curve when it comes to necessary ideas. Its Google Maps app is a ... Read more »
Keeping an Eye on Google Keep
April 1, 2013
Need a quick note-taking program while you’re out and about? Google Keep is an app available for devices running Android or through the Google Drive site and it’s a sleek, useful offering. But before using it you might want to recall Google Notebook, which was ... Read more »
Life in the Cloud: The Latest Move in Technology
February 1, 2013
How much of the functionality built into your software do you actually use? Most of us tap just a fraction of what’s locked up inside programs like Microsoft Office. Built as all-in-one solutions to the spectrum of business challenges, programs like this don’t play well ... Read more »
A Great Writer Rises from Your Computer
January 4, 2013
The Canadian scholar and critic Hugh Kenner, who wrote masterful studies of James Joyce and Ezra Pound among so many other literary works, was a man widely versed in things technical. In fact, Kenner once wrote a column for the now-defunct Byte Magazine, still beloved ... Read more »
The Limitations of Unlimited
December 13, 2012
Electricity, cars, cigarettes and computers quickly come to my mind as bringing huge changes to society over time. With the exception of cigarettes, each carried with it massive advantages. Unforeseen problems followed that our society is still coping with.Although I was told by my ... Read more »
The Empire of Electronics is Expanding
November 1, 2012
Any guess as to the identity of the fastest selling consumer electronic product in history? You might suspect the iPhone, or perhaps the iPad. But the correct answer is Microsoft’s Kinect, which is nothing more than a controller-free peripheral for the company’s Xbox 360 gaming ... Read more »
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