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Futures

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    Kenya’s Konza Technology City

    Kenya’s plan for a 5,000-acre “Silicon Savannah” some 30 miles from Nairobi. >>>

  • Africa’s Mobile Future(s)

    Mobile Trends 2020 Africa

    Find out what’s ahead: “Mobile Trends Africa 2020”. >>>

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    Fast Company

    Computer Cafe, Nairobi, Kenya

    With the arrival of broadband, sub-Saharan Africa’s tech entrepreneurs are on the verge of take off. Question is: to where? In Buea, southern Cameroon, the tech boys are pulling an all-nighter. Mambe Nanje Churchill’s fingers go hurtling across the keyboard. With his 20-year-old junior looking on, the 24-year-old self-taught veteran of the local cyber café >>>

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    Future Perfect

    Zap those economic blues. Seven shiny tech tips from CeBIT 09 The global economic crash getting you down? Take the talking cure. The population of Hanover in northern Germany pretty much doubles once a year when around 500,000 computer and IT industry movers and shakers from all over the world click over to CeBIT, the >>>

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    Spectacle

    Linz, a sleepy provincial Austrian town? Cuckoo clocks and the sound of music? Where Hitler went to school with Wittgenstein ? Never mind the cobblestones. As the venue for Ars Electronica , one of the biggest digital arts festivals in the world, Linz is heaven for geeks right now, is overclocking with tech-driven spectacle. Back >>>

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    Shooting War

    Just published, graphic novel Shooting War by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman: it’s 2011 and anti-corporate blogger Jimmy Burns is working as an embed for Global News – ‘Your home for 24-hour terror coverage’ – in President McCain’s Iraq. And boom. The beta online version is available here. . >>>

  • Cookie-Cutter Journalism

    Flip away from the enthusiasms of the Web 2.0/participatory media crowd; the future suddenly loses its shine. In a paper published last year by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, Robert G Picard gives a detailed account of what’s gone wrong with American news journalism: Many of the challenges of news organization today exist because the professionalism of >>>

  • Storing Futures

    An iPod can hold roughly 10,000 songs. Increase the storage capacity every 13 years, something the size of an iPod could store one year of video in another few years. By 2015, you could store all the music ever produced. By 2019, you could 85 years of video – a lifetime’s worth of video. By >>>

  • The Machine is Us/ing Us

    Digital ethnographer Michael Wesch ‘s video explains where the web came from, what it is, where it’s taking us: >>>

  • Material World

    Donning an avatar (she plumps for a “grumpy old woman”), Jenny Diski discovers that the online virtual world Second Life is less a chance to restart her life, more a cartoon-shaped replication of the real world: Second Life is a reiteration. It’s a virtual world of buying and selling, profit and consumption, material decoration and >>>