These Are The Five Key Battlegrounds For The Big Tech Platforms In 2017
Fast Company
Technology companies will increasingly invest in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other emerging tech next year. Large platform companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft want to provide the operating system for our lives, and they will fight hard in 2017 to establish their foothold in the emerging technologies we will likely come to rely on in the future. Read the full story
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Closing the Digital Divide Isn’t Easy—But We Have to Try
MIT Technology Review
Almost as soon as there was a World Wide Web, people worried about the “digital divide.” In the summer of 1995, the new National Telecommunications and Information Administration published a report, “Falling through the Net: A Survey of the ‘Have Nots’ in Rural and Urban America.” NTIA administrator Larry Irving and a White House aide named Albert Hammond began using the phrase to refer to inequality of access to information services. Vice President Al Gore spoke of it in his speeches. More than Read the full story
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A Finder’s Guide To Facts
NPR
The deluge of fake news suggests we live in a “post-truth” era. But NPR’s Steve Inskeep says it would be better to call this a “post-trust” era. Here are his tips to sniff out the suspect sources. Read the full story
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Fun and Games Led to Some of the World’s Greatest Inventions
National Geographic
Delight and play are important drivers of historical change. Read the full story
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Google is not ‘just’ a platform. It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world
the guardian
The right is rewriting history on the web. We must seize back control | Carole Cadwalladr Read the full story
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Digital natives can handle the truth. Trouble is, they can’t find it
the guardian
Alarming research shows that while the young are brilliant at flitting about on social media, their ability to nail down hard facts is woefully lacking Read the full story
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