How Verizon Buying AOL Subverts an Open Internet
Telecommunication companies were up in arms in February after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made net neutrality the law of the land by classifying broadband internet as a utility, seeming to ensure there would be no pay-to-play fast lanes. Not so fast. As Verizon’s planned acquisition of AOL reminds us, there’s another way to cash…
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We’ll Need Science Fiction To Imagine The Mind-Boggling Future Of War
A Greek writer taps away on his typewriter by candlelight,trying to make sense of the cyber war that started with a hacked pacemaker. AnAmerican major awaits trial for treason as the Pacificdescends into war. Russian forces attack adarkened Estonia. These aren’t science fiction stories — they’re entries in the Art of Future Warfare contest. All…
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