Jean Lievens: Is Blockchain a Threat to the Distributed Internet? UPDATED with 2 Comments

Must  read. The blockchain is a threat to the distributed future of the Internet EXTRACT The need to replicate the whole chain of blocks on our computer is an insurmountable barrier to entry if you’re searching for an alternative to IBM, Amazon or Google. The Twister chain is still small, but think about how, to …

Chuck Spinney: Teen Discovers Mayan City Using Internet, Star Charts, and Insight

One of the promises of the internet was that it would fuel an intellectual revolution, particularly in emergence of citizen science.  To date, that promise has seemed to be more a pipe dream than a reality.  But occasionally, one comes across a reminder of its potential.  Herewith is a stunning example of what is possible. …

Worth a Look: Colin Ehren, Scotland Yard SO-11 Retired, Offering Internet Investigative Tradecraft Training and More….

Internet Investigation Tradecraft A comprehensive 3 Day Workshop designed to give delegates the skills and knowledge required to perform an Internet Investigation or Intelligence Operation The ability to identify and retrieve relevant and timely information, intelligence or evidence from the Internet and Open Sources has become a routine necessity for Investigators. However, the structure and …

Jean Lievens: Estonia – the Perfect Country – the First Country Actually Being Managed Via the Internet

My Perfect Country: Estonia Fi Glover and digital guru Martha Lane Fox look at the digital revolution pioneered by the government in Estonia – where people vote, get their medical prescriptions even pay for their parking, online. With the help of Professor Henrietta Moore from the Institute for Global Prosperity and Taavet Hinrikus from Transferwise …

Yoda: Iranian Billionaire to Put Internet Into Rural India Via Television Screens

First woman space traveller to take internet to rural India through TV Anousheh Ansari, who had in September 2006 grabbed headlines for becoming the first woman space traveller, is now dreaming of connecting rural India with the internet via television screens. The Iranian-American entrepreneur, who is working with Tata Trust to help the rural areas …