tech
SOPA and PIPA
This week has been an amazing week for digital free speech - it was the first time that copyright abuse by organizations/lobbyists has been brought to the attention of the general population en mass.
2011 in review
This has been one heck of a year, that’s for sure! So, I’ll spend this post reflecting on some of the key events that have happened to me personally, within the tech industry, and around the world in general (with my cheeky perspectives of course).
The transputer
Have you heard of the transputer? Probably not. But in the mid 1980s, many people in computer science thought it was going to be “the future computer,” including one of my computer science professors at the University of Waterloo.
Jaron Lanier on technology
Some key points from someone at the forefront of our social-technical evolution.