Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
At their most sinister networks are seen as fishnets, entangaling, suffocating and all seeing. A network that watches you actively is usually called something else. The Matrix. Feature – Working the Camera Feature – Working the Camera: Real-Time Grid-Powered Surveillance The inside…
Citizendium, and a subsidiary initiative which I cooked for it, Eduzendium, got Wired’s eye. The article gives Citizendium a mixed review, thumbs up, thumbs down, but overall positive… On a funny note, the article was produced by Assignment Zero, an initiative I…
This series of Business Week articles maps out more than a year of high hopes and incredile public mood swings related to the newly minted Second Life 3D virtual reality environment (Update April 19: The Business Week search engine seems to be…
Confirming the suspicion of those who, like myself, believe that social behaviors are similarly codified across social universes, a Stanford study found that online nonverbal communication patterns closely reflect offline communication strategies. Study: Virtual men are standoffish too – Yahoo! News NEW…
Young dog trainer Zak George, posts a little starry-eyed manifesto about the role of You Tube in changing our future (and in the process the past gets changed, as well). Since its posting last week the clip has been seen by 350,000…
U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack – Yahoo! News
Is this another example of “storks bring babies” spurious relationships? Where you live linked to life expectancy – Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Where you live, combined with race and income, plays a huge role in the nation’s health disparities, differences so stark…
The Internet is a great equalizer. Even for Al Qaeda… ABC News: Al Qaeda’s Web of Terror bin Laden and Zawahiri still use these e-mail services to send their directives through the Internet. Not directly, of course, but through intermediaries, usually bodyguards,…
Clay Shirky, star digeratus and influential web thinker-tinkerer, ponders on the 80/20 rule, equality and future of blogging. Building on an interesting article from a couple of years ago, he affirms that if the blogosphere appears to be mercilessly elitist (in terms…
Larry Lessing, ever the technodeterminst, thinks that the solution for our neverending tragedy of the trust commons called phishing is in Microsoft’s hands. The next elixir is a new method of encrypting messages, layered in the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows. But…
It is often said that modern communication technology levels the playing field. Rich or poor, educated or not, Indian, Chinese or American, all can now own or use a cell phone or a computer. Furthermore, the expectation is that the more pervasive…
A big name corporation (can’t tell the name, I might be sued, but it isn’t Microsoft) came up with this absolutely amazing innovative device… Announcing the New Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric…
It is for visions like some of those found in this article (see excerpt below) that “I Think” deserves a spot under the sun. The article, syndicated by Yahoo!, and originally published by Extreme Tech, makes in its first prediction (we want…