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The Internet Age was meant to change everything - internationalism, commerce, journalism, government - all would be transformed, made equal and boundless by the click. It's time to admit this has simply failed to happen, and what is more interesting than the bad forecasting is the reason that they seemed so tempting in the first place. (This is the text of a lecture delivered in Sydney in December 2011)

Once a year I take a week or so offline. Tomorrow and for the next 10 days I will be visiting family and vacationing in Vietnam, and will be email, blog, twitter and (maybe) even iPad silent. The week after I will be in Liberia, where Internet speeds make 1992 dial-up look like lightning. So […]

‎Music · 2023

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David Ojok was walking home from school when the gunmen came for him. He was just 13 and was taken prisoner before being inducted into Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army. Led by self-proclaimed messiah Joseph Kony, the rebel group inflicted unimaginable suffering during two decades of violence in Africa's longest running civil conflict. David, now 18, was one of 60,000 children abducted by the LRA - trapped in a terrifying limbo - in fear for his life with little hope of a future free from violence. Summoning incredible bravery, the teenager escaped his captors and is now looking ahead to a brighter future as a brick layer with training supported by British aid.

Food and water contamination kills more children than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human waste is an impressive weapon of mass destruction. So here's what's being done about it.

The third and final part of my Star Trek editing endeavours. I hope you all enjoy it as much as the previous two parts. Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6n1zmyMbdg Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0SJ9HuB5k

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Max von Sydow has been making movies since 1949, with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Woody Allen. Now, at 82, he could be about to win his first Oscar, writes Hadley Freeman

Global Pulse (www.unglobalpulse.org) is an innovation initiative of the UN Secretary-General, harnessing today's new world of digital data and real-time anal...

I said yesterday I hope not to need to see teams like this ever again. Before I get to that, let me give you a quick rundown on what they’re doing.

Spending two weeks on the beach basking in the sun is a common way to enjoy spring break vacation. But in the past decade, many young Canadians are opting to...