Reid Cornwell's Blog Posts Tagged 'internet' (5)

IMAGERY IN THE 21st CENTURY

Edited by Oliver GRAU with Thomas VEIGL

Cambridge/Mass., MIT Press, 2011

7 x 9 ● 424 pp. ● 132 figures



Scholars from science, art and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.  With contributions by Marie-Luise Angerer,  Olaf Breidbach,  Adrian David Cheok,  Wendy Chun, Sean Cubitt,  James Elkins,  Oliver Grau,  Stefan Heidenreich,  Eduardo Kac,  Martin Kemp,  Harald Kraemer,  Lev… Continue

"Father of the Internet" now focused on building a communications network capable of supporting deep space exploration.

What does the man who invented the Internet do for an encore? He builds a space-based version of the worldwide computing and communications network. "We need a set of protocols that work on interplanetary distances, TCP/IP does not," said Cerf, at a press conference… Continue

Email

107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.

294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.

1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.

480 million – New email users since the year before.

89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.

262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).

2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.

25% – Share of email accounts that…

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In the much-publicized, much-discussed article titled "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet." in the September 2010 issue of "Wired" magazine, co-author editor-in-chief Chris Anderson writes, "[O]ur tolerance for the delirious chaos of infinite competition finds…

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Andrew Keen is an author, commentator and speaker. Previously a pioneering internet entrepreneur, he is reknowned for his challenging critiques of Web 2.0, social media and modern internet culture.The Digital Revolution programme one team met and interviewed Andrew to discuss the Internet's libertarian beginnings and its expanding role in world cultures and… Continue