Information technology is all around us — but how does it really change the way we do business? Erik Brynjolfsson, the Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, explores this question in his new book, ...
Business
Oct 23, 2009
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Two years ago, Dr. Gonzalo Venegas decided to bring his medical practice into the Information Age.
Business
Jun 10, 2011
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Researcher Davinia Moreno, a geochronologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the lead author of a study published recently in the journal Quaternary Geochronology, which combined ...
Earth Sciences
May 14, 2021
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Queen Elizabeth II has sent her first tweet—though she kept things traditional, signing off with "Elizabeth R."
Internet
Oct 24, 2014
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(AP)—Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead in his New York apartment Friday, struggled for years against a legal system that he felt had not caught up to the information age. Federal prosecutors had ...
Internet
Jan 14, 2013
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In the 1930s Alan Turing imagined a "universal computing machine" capable of computing nearly anything. Today, that universality is the backbone of the information age: Turing-like computers are running governments, businesses, ...
Security
Jan 19, 2017
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When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation launched a broadside at Google, claiming the company abuses its overwhelming market position in Europe, it looked a lot like a clash between web and print – the Information Age vs ...
Internet
Sep 23, 2014
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Humans, as a species, are around 200,000 years old. Compared to the age of the universe we're clearly infants but compared to the internet, we're pretty old and compared to social media, which is still in its infancy, we're ...
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2014
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Although we currently live in the "Information Age" what we actually generate, and most of the time fail to make meaningful use of, is data. The Australian Government's Productivity Commission has released a report that highlights ...
Internet
Nov 4, 2016
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Kurt Cobain, former lead singer of Nirvana, famously sang "Just because you're paranoid don't mean they aren't after you." And 'after you' seems to be exactly what they are. I am referring to the tech-giants who are collecting, ...
Internet
Mar 22, 2018
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