Thoughts From, And About, The Aspen Ideas Festival Doug Bernard | Aspen CO Each year, the Aspen Institute hosts what it calls the Aspen Ideas Festival. Over the next week, VOA will be in Aspen with hundreds of thinkers, writers, inventors and innovators, to learn and share some new ways to look at our world. […]
Rap Genius and Tomorrow’s Education
Interview With the Co-Founder of Potentially Disruptive Education Technology Ross Slutsky | Washington DC Ross Slutksy is a former VOA intern and current Digital Frontiers contributor. Ross is also a research intern at the Center for Democracy and Technology; the views expressed here are solely his own and not representative of CDT. You can reach […]
Your Giga-Future
Do You Really Need A 1-GB Internet? Yes. Doug Bernard | Washington DC Once upon a time, around the time I was starting college, the prefix everyone wanted in computers was “kilo.” Computer programs, processor speeds, memory storage: it all came measured in units of kilo, or thousands. 64 Kilobytes equaled 64,000 bytes of memory […]
Live From Tampa! Sort Of…
Google Hangouts, Wifi Addiction and Tunnel Vision at the GOP Convention Doug Bernard | Tampa FL A colleague in Washington asked me today: “So, are you getting to see much of Tampa while you’re at the convention?” I’m quite sure they had no idea just how funny that was. While Republican delegates are whooping it […]
The Limits of Speech In Oman
And Mars Finds A New, Sarcastic Voice On Twitter Doug Bernard | Washington DC Periodically we like to share a few of the stories and posts from across the web that caught our eye. There are no editorial threads implied connecting these items together, other than being interesting. Several of our colleagues have been covering […]
The Web’s “Triple Revolution”
And Tracking Down Trolls Online Periodically we like to share a few of the stories and posts from across the web that caught our eye. There are no editorial threads implied connecting these items together, other than being interesting. We’re also pleased to introduce Ross Slutsky, a new intern here at Digital Frontiers. Slutsky is […]
Google Glass Is A Gas
A Look At, Or Through, Google’s Latest Technology and the Internet are all about innovation. Like a shark that must continually swim to pass water over its gills, if a tech company doesn’t innovate, it probably won’t last very long. Most of the innovations are, frankly, yawns. Some are crazy brilliant, while many others are […]
Gizmo Party Time in Vegas!
What’s Hot, and What’s Not, at the Consumer Electronic Show Doug Bernard and Rick Pantaleo | Washington DC If you have anything more than just a passing interest in what new electronic devices will soon be hitting store shelves, chances are good you’re either in Las Vegas this week, or wish you were. That’s because […]