Tag: Internet

Because of travel when I was young, I used to be able to speak Spanish pretty well. But from 2003 through 2019 I forgot a great deal of what I once knew. I was fine with that because I figured the only way to get good again would be to go live in a Spanish-speaking country, something I couldn&rsq...

Bell Labs, the historic headwaters of so many inventions that now define our digital age, is closing in Murray Hill, its latest owners moving to more modern headquarters in New Brunswick. The Labs should be preserved as a historic site and more. I propose that Bell Labs be opened to the pu...

In my latest book, The Practice of Groundedness, I traced this general sense of dis-ease to a concept I called heroic individualism: an ongoing game of oneupmanship against yourself and others where the goalpost is always ten-yards down the field. Heroic individualism is a vicious spiral of go,...

The last few days have seen the internet buzzing with talk about Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, and the rant that has, as of now, seriously damaged his career. His screed, which even in the best light was racially intemperate and ignorant, and in a more honest light, was fla...

In my case, being born in the year 2000, the internet seems like a given to me. Something that has always existed, almost like magic. In 2006, I got my first computer, and from that moment on, I knew that with a simple command in the browser, I could access millions of web pages. However, it wasn&rs...

Some time ago I got rid of the Internet at home. It was a difficult but necessary decision to make, because I realized that I had become too reliant on constant online connection and started missing out on the real life. Quitting the Internet was also an important step to my never-ending journey ...

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has announced that their interconnection hub in Nairobi, Kenya is now live and ready for business. LINX Nairobi is the latest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for East Africa, located out of IXAfrica’s, Africa Data Centres’ NBO1 and iColo’s NBO...