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Canadian producer Brad Fox blogs on visual media, and living in the digital wild west

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The New Face of “Phantom” Journalisim

June 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It’s nice to see that the Dutch haven’t cornered the market on ill-formed ideas relating to newspapers and the internet. I don’t really want to get into the details of Richard Posner’s blog post. The Tobin/Coover synopsis is that if it were illegal to link to or quote newspapers web-content they’d be in better position […]

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Tags: copyright reform · media ramblings · No.

Dear Robot Developers: Why Do You Want Your Creations to Kill Us All?

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was talking to someone the other day about a documentary from HotDocs called “Mechanical Love“. One of the themes the film touches on is how Japan has an official initiative of Robot integration to replace their rapidly ageing population (by 2055, over 40% of the population will be older than 65). One of the […]

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Tags: welcome to the future