What it’s like to be cut off from your Internet brain implant
In John Dickinson’s WE, everybody’s connected to the World Ear, a tiny communications device that connects your brain to the internet — except Paul Munro, cut off from humanity at the fringes of the solar system. It’s a thrilling premise. Here’s a quick synopsis: Paul Munro must leave Earth. He is sent to a station…
Does “defriending” mean that your relationship is over?
In this excerpt from her book The Breakup 2.0, media studies professor Ilana Gershon explains the rituals around breakups on social networks. To defriend or not defriend? What about creating a warning ringtone for your ex? After a break-up, people will remove all traces of their ex from their Facebook profile, deleting photos and wallposts.…
Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That
Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks? [View a larger map of insurance seeders on Google maps.] On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the Afghan war logs, despite a demand from the…
