Friday, December 08, 2017

The Web Began Dying in 2014: "Country Over Party"

 Doctor Created 3D-Printed Euthanasia Machine That Can End Life Painlessly.



The Web Began Dying in 2014 – Here’s How

The Internet has changed considerably since 2014, and not in a good way


The Internet As We’ve Known It Is Dying


"A vibrant network doesn’t die all at once. It takes time and neglect; it grows weaker by the day, but imperceptibly, so that one day we are living in a digital world controlled by giants and we come to regard the whole thing as normal. It’s not normal. It wasn’t always this way. The internet doesn’t have to be a corporate playground. That’s just the path we’ve chosen." … [Read More]


The death of the internet: If we lose this, we lose everything. - Reddit

This OCLC Research Report challenges the digital natives vs. digital immigrants paradigm; that is, the common assumption that younger people prefer to conduct research in a digital space while older people rely on physical sources for information. The report continues the work of the Digital Visitors and Residents project, which included the development of a mapping tool to help participants identify which technology they use as visitors (i.e., access to complete a certain task and then leave without a digital trace) or as residents (i.e., express themselves, interact with others, and establish personas that persist beyond active engagement). Using these maps, semi-structured individual interviews, diaries, and online surveys, the researchers analyzed the technology engagement of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy at a range of educational institutions.

Shoot your Bitcoins off into space, and Cryptokitties is now the most popular application on Ethereum

“Kindled by the dying embers of another working day…”


I’ll be surprised if it sells six copies,” I said, and I meant it. When you test the patience of readerswith a poem about moving from the city to the woods, published online over the course of a year in thirteen monthly installments, it’s foolish to expect even a trickle of demand for a paperback version.