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There is a new laptop advertisement making the rounds. The focal point of HP’s new Spectre laptop is the camera kill switch. Advertisements all it “a better way” and attempt to laugh at technology-users habit of covering webcams with stickers. What is striking however, is the blatant disregard of what may cause technology uses toContinue reading “Internet Privacy Paranoia and the Camera Kill Switch”

The structure and delivery of education has largely not kept up with the tools that the digital age can provide. The exception is home schooling! The internet has helped the expansion of home schooling, with the U.S.A home school community at least doubling between 1999 and 20121. Access to resources and curricula has increased asContinue reading “The case for home schooling: Education in a digital age”

Despite what nostalgia tells us, the issues with modern journalism and news distribution did not begin with the transition to digital and internet-based news. News coverage in the twentieth century underwent conglomeration, increasing bipartisanship and influence from advertisers. In fact by 1900, more than two thirds of revenue at most of the U.S.A’s eighteen thousandContinue reading “Journalism DOES have a future”