Standage goes on to point out that the development of the internet was accompanied by the same rhetoric: twelve years ago Nicholas Negropnte famously proclaimed that the internet would end nationalism and bring about world peace, and he was just one of ma
"Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a p
The emergence of distributed networks, defined by capacity of agents to freely determine their
actions and relations, and of the internet and the social web in particular, have created a new set
of technological affordances creating a broad range of open