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Web founder thinks Internet surveillance is enormous threat to democracy

Last week, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, warned that the Internet is threatened by a growing tide of surveillance and censorship. In the Foundation’s annual Web Index Report, it was reported that, “…94% of countries in the Index do not meet best practice standards for checks and balances on government […]

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There won’t be a ‘next version of the Web’

In an excellent post on Wired, David Gelernter makes the argument that we’re approaching The End of the Web, Search and Computer as We Know It. In what sounds like a science-fiction statement, Gelernter says that, “The space-based web we currently have will be gradually replaced by a time-based worldstream.” We have evidence of what […]

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Making the most of digital disruption

Forrester’s Digital Disruption Conference kicked off today in Orlando, Florida and it couldn’t have come at a better time for where the typical business sits today. There’s a storm brewing and the components of disruption are big data, analytics, cloud, social and mobile. Companies are still trying to sort out these pieces, but the real […]

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