Archivo categoría «Nuevas Tecnologías»
By Fred Vogelstein, a contributing editor for Wired magazine (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/02/12):
Two years ago, Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel made a remarkable statement about the future of media. He said he could see a time when certain movies premiered on Facebook instead of in theaters. “For the $150 million movie, you’ll still need to go to Warner Brothers, but for the $25 million movie, probably not,” he said at a San Francisco conference.
After a decade of war with Silicon Valley, big chunks of Hollywood’s establishment are thinking about technology differently. Instead of freaking out about … Seguir leyendo
Por Viviane Reding, vicepresidenta de la Comisión Europea (EL PERIÓDICO, 28/01/12):
¿Se ha preguntado alguna vez qué sucede con sus datos personales cuando se conecta a internet para reservar un vuelo? ¿Puede borrar realmente una foto que en su día subió usted a una red social? ¿Sabe quién puede ayudarle si han robado sus datos o los han utilizado incorrectamente?
Muchos europeos se hacen las mismas preguntas. A pesar de que aceptamos la creciente importancia que tiene internet en nuestra vida diaria, un 72% (71% en España) de los usuarios de internet son conscientes de que proporcionan demasiados datos … Seguir leyendo
LOS ANGELES TIMES, 28/01/12:
This interview was edited and excerpted from a longer taped transcript. Interview archive: latimes.com/pattasks
Brewster Kahle has the gleeful air of a man who has just found something wonderful and wants to tell his friends all about it. And his friends are the 2 billion people, and counting, who are on the Internet every day.
What he has found — or more accurately, crafted — are the means and the mechanisms to preserve the human record, the whole human record, in its many media, so other humans can get to it with a tap or a … Seguir leyendo
Por J. J. Armas Marcelo, director de la cátedra Vargas Llosa (ABC, 10/01/12):
Hace unos años, cuando comenzó la revolución digital (y muchos no creían que esa interminable fiesta también se iba a celebrar), un amigo cercano que cumplía altas funciones de Estado me presentó a un hacker verdadero. Era un muchacho de unos veinte años, alto, espigado, vestido con pantalones vaqueros y una camisa blanca de manga corta. Fumaba con la displicencia de Bogart en una película con guión de Dashiell Hammett, doblaba las piernas con la naturalidad estética de la gente del 68 cuando éramos jóvenes y … Seguir leyendo
By Vinton G. Cerf, a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/01/12):
From the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world last year were built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it. Though the demonstrations thrived because thousands of people turned out to participate, they could never have happened as they did without the ability that the Internet offers to communicate, organize and publicize everywhere, instantaneously.
It is no surprise, then, that the … Seguir leyendo
Por Evgeny Morozov, visiting scholar en la Universidad de Stanford y profesor en la New America Foundation. La edición española de su libro La desilusión de Internet será publicada por Destino en junio de 2012. Traducción de Juan Ramón Azaola (EL PAÍS, 26/12/11):
¿Por fin ha madurado Google? El cuidado con el que ha manejado la tecnología del reconocimiento facial parece sustentar esa tesis. Compárenlo con Facebook. Cuando el pasado junio la red social de Zuckerberg desveló su tecnología del reconocimiento facial se vio envuelta en una violenta reacción de la privacidad universal. Pero Google ha evitado esa fatalidad: … Seguir leyendo
By Mona Simpson, a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/10/11):
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help … Seguir leyendo
By Alan Charles Raul, a partner with Sidley Austin and former vice chairman of the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 28/10/11):
Just about the last thing the world economy needs right now is a trumped-up digital trade war over electronic data stored and processed on servers located virtually anywhere. However, unless the governments of the United States and Europe and multinational tech companies start talking soon about reconciling and simplifying international data-protection rules, some ominous storm clouds could threaten trans-Atlantic e-commerce.
Given the staggering potential of cloud computing to promote economic growth, it … Seguir leyendo
By Mark Bowden, the author of Worm: The First Digital World War (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 23/10/11):
Earlier this month, researchers discovered a cunning strain of malware, dubbed the Lurid Downloader, that has been systematically and silently stealing data from carefully targeted government computers in 61 countries.
The discovery was made by Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer security company, which identified the invader as a version of a well-known strain of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the popular programs Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office. It inserts itself into a computer’s core, and then phones home to a remote operator who … Seguir leyendo
By Christopher Bonanos, an editor at New York magazine (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/10/11):
In the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero, the person on whose career he explicitly modeled his own: Edwin H. Land, the genius domus of Polaroid Corporation and inventor of instant photography.
Land, in his time, was nearly as visible as Jobs was in his. In 1972, he made the covers of … Seguir leyendo
By Gish Jen, the author, most recently, of the novel World and Town (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/10/11):
In 1980, Steve Jobs went to a brown-bag lunch at Stanford business school, looking for summer help. Other Apple executives were busy explaining what a personal computer was when he sauntered in; they stopped mid-sentence as, dressed in a vest, jeans and Birkenstock sandals, he settled himself, cross-legged, on top of a desk. He looked as if he were about to hold a yoga class. Then he began to talk, instead, about revolutionizing the world.
Some four or five students heeded … Seguir leyendo
By Mike Daisey, an author and performer. His latest monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is scheduled to open at the Public Theater on Tuesday (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/10/11):
Steve Jobs was an enemy of nostalgia. He believed that the future required sacrifice and boldness. He bet on new technologies to fill gaps even when the way was unclear.
He often told the press that he was as proud of the devices Apple killed — in the parlance of Silicon Valley, he was a master of “knifing the baby,” which more squeamish innovators cannot do … Seguir leyendo
By Martin Lindstrom, the author of Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/10/11):
With Apple widely expected to release its iPhone 5 on Tuesday, Apple addicts across the world are getting ready for their latest fix.
But should we really characterize the intense consumer devotion to the iPhone as an addiction? A recent experiment that I carried out using neuroimaging technology suggests that drug-related terms like “addiction” and “fix” aren’t as scientifically accurate as a word we use to describe our most cherished personal relationships. That word is … Seguir leyendo
By Evgeny Morozov, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/09/11):
Agents of the East German Stasi could only have dreamed of the sophisticated electronic equipment that powered Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s extensive spying apparatus, which the Libyan transitional government uncovered earlier this week. The monitoring of text messages, e-mails and online chats — no communications seemed beyond the reach of the eccentric colonel.
What is even more surprising is where Colonel Qaddafi got his spying gear: software and technology companies from France, South … Seguir leyendo
Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world. Her interests include information technology, health care, private aviation, and space travel (Project Syndicate, 26/08/11):
A name is just a sound or sequence of letters. It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people’s minds – a concept, a person, a brand, or a particular thing or individual.
In modern economies, people distinguish between generic words, which refer to concepts or a set of individual things (a certain kind of fruit, for example), and trademarks, … Seguir leyendo