Sunday, April 3, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Fax, email, Commodore and the blurred line of "progress" in technology...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-04-03]: Jerzy Buzek, the president of EU Parliament, is reversing back to using fax after the recent cyber attacks to various EU institutions [source: web news]. An impressive hit to what was considered so far to be the strength of Internet: communication... The definition of "progress" seems to be still very elusive, even in technology matters which many think are "solved"... When we go on into a path, we tend to forget where we started from. Try to surf the Internet with a Commodore 128 [refer to Programming from Commodore to Intel] and see how many viruses you will get...

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