Showing posts with label black box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black box. Show all posts
28 May 2026

Why Google’s new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster

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With the latest incarnation of its search engine, Google is making the World Wide Web as we have known it for over 30 years invisible, and t...
22 November 2009

Opening up the Black Box of Scientific Research

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I've written before about the idea of applying openness/open source ideas to science, but here's an interesting new project that at...
08 August 2009

The Real Hope for Nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology is one of those subjects that seem to veer between hope and hype. DNA-based solutions look among the most promising, because...
18 April 2008

When Will They Ever Learn?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
30 October 2007

Put Me Down for X

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One of the interesting ideas for replacing the current patent mess is to use a bidding system. People - or, more likely, governments - woul...
04 September 2007

What's (Open) Source for the Goose...

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A report suggesting that the Chinese military has hacked into German government computers could have a negative impact on the prospects in W...
03 September 2007

Open Science Means Open Source

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The need for open access and open data in science seems obvious enough - even enough some persist in denying it. But as science becomes in...
07 January 2006

Code is Law, Code is Politics

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As Lawrence Lessig famously noted, Code is Law . Which means that Code is Politics, too, since laws are drawn up by politicians. But the ...