Tag: internet

• What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet

  August 12, 2024

  It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/09/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet more ›

• The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

  December 31, 2023

  The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/ more ›

• The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet

  July 26, 2023

  The concert is in London. You’re watching it live from your home in Atlanta. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/ more ›

• The internet wants to be fragmented

  December 18, 2022

  Five years ago I was sitting around drinking a beer with my college buddy Dayv. I was scrolling through Twitter and watching people get mad at Donald Trump’s latest outrage,… more ›

• Laws governing undersea cables have hardly changed since 1884 – Tonga is a reminder they need modernising

  January 30, 2022

  Since the catastrophic volcanic eruption on January 16, Tonga has been largely cut off from the world due to a break in the undersea cable that links Tonga with Fiji… more ›

• Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, The Internet, And The Metaverse

  February 6, 2021

  One of the neat things about the internet is who created it, why, and how. The web’s cross-platform, standards-based and non-profit origins are inseparable from the internet’s rapid growth, the… more ›

• X – The Moonshot Factory

  January 8, 2021

  Project Loon Balloon-Powered Internet for Everyone Learn more Visit the X Blog Malta: Using Salt to Store Energy Learn more Foghorn: Fuel From Seawater Learn more Tour the X Campus… more ›

• “The machine stops” by E. M. Forster

  December 15, 2020

  “The Machine Stops” is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster’s The Eternal Moment and… more ›

• Truth community

  August 10, 2020

  Connecting everyone in the world to the internet and democratizing access to information was once a noble and unlikely goal – before the smartphone revolution. Today, digital literacy is embedded… more ›

• Alphabet’s Loon starts beaming internet from balloons in Kenya

  July 9, 2020

  Alphabet’s Loon project has finally launched its internet-delivery balloons in Africa following a deal with the Kenyan government. It marks a significant milestone for Loon, once one of Google’s “moonshot”… more ›