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Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

This is the first book review I’ve done on this blog, though it won’t be the last. In a sense, this is less of a conventional review than an attempt to discuss some of the ideas in the book, and synthesise them with points that have been raised by the examination of architectures of control: [...]

DRM now the ‘biggest issue’ in preserving information for the future

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The Guardian has an interview with Richard Masters, of the British Library’s digital objects management programme looking at the impact of technology on archiving. The usual worries about file formats, media incompatability and how to select what to preserve and what not to are discussed, but:
“The biggest issue is digital rights management. At the moment, [...]

Embedding control in society: the end of freedom

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 9, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Henry Porter’s chilling Blair Laid Bare – which I implore you to read if you have the slightest interest in your future – contains an equally worrying quote from the LSE’s Simon Davies noting the encroachment of architectures of control in society itself:
“The second invisible change that has occurred in Britain is best expressed by [...]

Policing Crowds: Privatizing Security

By Dan Lockton ⋅ June 24, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

The Policing Crowds conference is taking place 24-25 June 2006 in Berlin, examining many aspects of controlling the public and increasing business involvement in this field – ‘crime control as industry’. Technologies designed specifically to permit control and monitoring of the public, such as CCTV and many RFID applications, will also be discussed.
The conference takes [...]

‘Researchers develop prototype system to thwart unwanted video and still photography’

By Dan Lockton ⋅ June 19, 2006 ⋅ 8 comments

Via Boing Boing, ‘Researchers develop prototype system to thwart unwanted video and still photography’, news from Georgia Tech of a system that scans and finds the CCDs of digital imaging equipment and shines bright light (or a laser) into them in order to flood them with light and prevent usable images being recorded.
“Commercial versions of [...]

New Scientist : Crowds silenced by delayed echoes

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Via Boing Boing – ‘Hooligan chants silenced by delayed echoes’, a New Scientist story looking at the work of Dutch researchers who are using out-of-sync replayed sound to disrupt synchronised chanting at football matches.
“Soccer hooligans could be silenced by a new sound system that neutralises chanting with a carefully timed echo.

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