Augmented Reality as another re-envisioning of the future that never happened

As children, many people were brought up on the science-fiction of the 1970′s and 1980′s. There seemed to be a bounty of promise in this vision of a 3D virtualized, “everything at your fingers” holographic world. ”Augmented Reality” seems to be another attempt to reconstruct the idyllic science-fiction fantasies of many adult’s childhood and less [...]

The need for a new kind of copyright

I have embraced with “open arms” Creative Commons’ effort to provide open and customizable copyrights. It has become quite clear that the “one size fits all” copyright of old no longer works for everyone. There’s another kind of “copy right” that I think is missing in modern law and that is the idea of an [...]

Data Security + National Security = Headaches

The New York Times recently published an article about a new requirement which will mandate that passengers booking airline tickets must have an exact match between their ID and their boarding pass name. When web programmers create a form to accept data they have to do the thinking for the computer. For example, we often [...]

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