Archivo categoría «Nuevas Tecnologías»
By Kari Kraus, an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies and the English department at the University of Maryland (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/08/11):
Last spring, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas acquired the papers of Bruce Sterling, a renowned science fiction writer and futurist. But not a single floppy disk or CD-ROM was included among his notes and manuscripts. When pressed to explain why, the prophet of high-tech said digital preservation was doomed to fail. “There are forms of media which are just inherently unstable,” he said, “and the attempt to stabilize … Seguir leyendo
Por Ernesto Hernández Busto, ensayista (premio Casa de América 2004). Desde 2006 edita el blog de asuntos cubanos PenultimosDias.com (EL PAÍS, 03/08/11):
Hubo una época en que la radio fue algo muy parecido a lo que hoy representa Internet. Para quienes nunca se lo imaginaron -o ya lo habían olvidado-, Tim Wu, profesor de Derecho en la Universidad de Columbia, dedica The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (2010) a recordar que la utopía de un sistema de comunicación sin restricciones no es precisamente un descubrimiento de la era digital.
A comienzos del siglo XX muchas … Seguir leyendo
By James Gleick, the author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/07/11):
I got a real thrill in December 1999 in the Reading Room of the Morgan Library in New York when the librarian, Sylvie Merian, brought me, after I had completed an application with a letter of reference and a photo ID, the first, oldest notebook of Isaac Newton. First I was required to study a microfilm version. There followed a certain amount of appropriate pomp. The notebook was lifted from a blue cloth drop-spine box and laid on a special padded … Seguir leyendo
By Karen Kornbluh, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Daniel Weitzner, deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White House (THE WASHINGTON POST, 15/07/11):
Iran’s recent announcement that it plans to disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world was another dramatic sign that the Internet is at risk of being carved up into national mini-Internets, each with its own rules and restrictions. In contrast, the United States has staked out a clear position of leadership in building a global consensus around the benefits of an open, interconnected Internet.… Seguir leyendo
By Tim Kreider, a cartoonist, an essayist and the author of the forthcoming collection We Learn Nothing (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19/06/11):
When I was 17, I took a record of John Cage’s piano pieces out of the library. The pieces were interesting, but what really arrested my attention was the B-side of the album — a work called “The Dreamer That Remains,” by a composer I’d never heard of named Harry Partch. This was music from another planet: unearthly yowling strings, metallic twangs, rippling liquid percussion. I couldn’t even identify the instruments.
I loaned the record to … Seguir leyendo
Par Patrice Lamothe, PDG du moteur de recherche communautaire Pearltrees et Thomas Gomart, directeur du développement stratégique à l’IFRI (LE MONDE, 06/06/11):
“Au e-G8, je me sens comme un Indien ou un Africain en train de regarder les puissances coloniales s’armer pour conquérir ma terre”. Ce tweet du journaliste américain Jeff Jarvis résume le clivage entre le monde de l’Internet et ceux qui cherchent à le “civiliser”, au premier rang duquel figure désormais Nicolas Sarkozy. Opération de communication, l’e-G8 aura eu le mérite de souligner l’importance croissante du numérique, longtemps cantonné en France à un secrétariat d’Etat, … Seguir leyendo
By Joe Palca, an NPR science correspondent and Flora Lichtman, a multimedia editor for the public radio program Science Friday. They are the authors of Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/06/11):
Oh, dear. Something else to worry about.Cellphones may cause brain cancer. “May” is the key word in that sentence, as in “maybe,” “possibly” or perhaps even “not likely.” The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, has not concluded that cellphones do lead to brain cancer, but that “we need to keep a close … Seguir leyendo
By Eli Pariser, the president of the board of MoveOn.org and the author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/05/11):
Once upon a time, the story goes, we lived in a broadcast society. In that dusty pre-Internet age, the tools for sharing information weren’t widely available. If you wanted to share your thoughts with the masses, you had to own a printing press or a chunk of the airwaves, or have access to someone who did. Controlling the flow of information was an elite class of editors, producers and media … Seguir leyendo
Por Esther Mitjans, directora de la Autoridad Catalana de Protección de Datos (EL PERIÓDICO, 09/05/11):
Los datos perdidos de más de 77 millones de usuarios de la PlayStation de Sony se han ido y no volverán. Como los niños perdidos en el país de nunca jamás del célebre libro de Peter Pan; pero, en esta ocasión, los que se han apoderado de los datos no han sido los piratas del capitán Garfio sino los piratas informáticos.
Es un robo preocupante dado el tipo de datos registrados, básicamente nombres, direcciones postales y de correo electrónico, fechas de cumpleaños, nombres de … Seguir leyendo
By Robert Darnton, a professor and the director of the Harvard University Library (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/03/11):
On Tuesday, Denny Chin, a federal judge in Manhattan, rejected the settlement between Google, which aims to digitize every book ever published, and a group of authors and publishers who had sued the company for copyright infringement. This decision is a victory for the public good, preventing one company from monopolizing access to our common cultural heritage.
Nonetheless, we should not abandon Google’s dream of making all the books in the world available to everyone. Instead, we should build a digital … Seguir leyendo
Por Josep Lluís Micó, codirector del Digilab. Laboratori de Comunicació Digital de Catalunya (LA VANGUARDIA, 06/03/11):
El cloud computing (o computación en la nube) consiste en usar programas informáticos en línea, sin tener que descargárselos, y en depositar en internet toda clase de documentación, sin necesidad de ocupar espacio físico en ordenadores y servidores ni gastar dinero en energía y mantenimiento. Quienes lo preconizan, tanto particulares como empresas, lo presentan como un sistema de gestión eficiente, sencillo, económico y seguro. ¿Seguro?
Se trata de una innovación que parece pensada para combatir con imaginación los rigores de la crisis, aunque … Seguir leyendo
By Tom Glaisyer, a Knight media policy fellow at the New America Foundation and a doctoral student in communications at Columbia University. In 2009 he was a New Ideas Fund fellow and Shawn Powers, an assistant professor in communication at Georgia State University, and an associate director at the Centre on International Media Education (THE GUARDIAN, 03/03/11):
When the Berlin Wall fell, the western response was swift and obvious: send in the free-market economists. Soviet Communism was a system structured for failure that had left a group of governments and citizens in need of political and cultural … Seguir leyendo
By René Obermann, the chief executive officer of Deutsche Telekom (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/02/11):
Last year’s Stuxnet computer-worm attack on several Iranian nuclear installations may have been our collective digital Sputnik shock. It highlighted the significant security challenges we face in the digital sphere.
Yet in addition to this very public case, cyberspace is contested every single second, although these attacks do not normally get the same level of public attention.
Unlike the outer space that Sputnik reached, the Internet and the structures it rests upon are already heavily populated and utilized — by governments and companies, research … Seguir leyendo
By Joseph S. Nye Jr., a professor at Harvard and the author, most recently, of The Future of Power (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/02/11):
This year, the 47th Munich Security Conference included for the first time a special session on cybersecurity. “This may be the first time,” the president of a small European noted to the high-powered assembly, more accustomed to dealing with armies and alliances than with worms and denial-of-service attacks, “but it will not be the last.”
Until now, the issue of cybersecurity has largely been the domain of computer geeks. When the Internet was created 40 … Seguir leyendo
By Richard Powers, the author of the novel Generosity: An Enhancement (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 06/02/11):
In the category “What Do You Know?”, for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything in existence and it means to give a couple of the world’s quickest humans a run for their money at their own game.
The question: What is Watson?
I.B.M.’s groundbreaking question-answering system, running on roughly 2,500 parallel processor cores, each able to perform up to 33 billion operations a second, is playing a pair of … Seguir leyendo