Sebastian Von Engelhardt (Jena): What Economists Know About Open Source Software: Its Basic Principles and Research Results. Digital Inflections: An interview with Alan Dunning and Paul Woodrow on The Einstein's Brain Project, which explored human consciousness as a contributing participant in the development of our technological future. Who are the world's leading thinkers on technology? The top ten minds whose ideas are helping to shape our future. More and more and more and more on The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu. Auto(in)correct: How smartphones are making us look dumb. A review of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle (and more and more and more and more and more). A review of The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. The Triumph of Hacker Culture: Ron Rosenbaum on Stuxnet and the iconic, pioneering hacker Captain Crunch. So it turns out technology really does empower us. A look at how technology drives history, but it just doesn’t drive it very far. A review of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. The Numbers Guy goes behind the information overload hype (and more). In case you didn’t get the memo/text/call/e-mail/tweet, this just in: The world is drowning in information (and more). Is it time to welcome our new computer overlords? IBM's Watson computer's sense of language isn't as human as it might seem.
