They say an entrepreneur is someone who works for themselves 16 hours a day, so that they don’t have to work 8 hours a day for someone else. There’s a certain amount of truth to that, I think. While we … Continue reading
Slave to the web
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Tag Archives: internet
Computer literacy – a human right?l
According to The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, literacy is a basic human right. I would suggest that computer literacy should also be a basic human right, yet it seems that many of the old and the poor lack … Continue reading
Second Class Netizens
The internet is supposed to be agnostic of location, but that isn’t really the case. We know that the governments of many nations want to censor what their citizens see, and monitor what they do when online. We don’t even … Continue reading
Quiet Revolution
There’s a saying that’s been around for a few years now: “On the internet no-one knows you’re a dog“. The point is that anonymity, or at least the illusion of anonymity, leads us to be bolder than we might be … Continue reading
Piracy and free speech
The internet as we know it is an incredible resource. I’m not referring to the technology that makes it possible. I’m talking about the wealth of information available to all of us for free. The media giants would prefer that … Continue reading