Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent

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March 6, 2013, 4:35 pm

I’m rebuilding this site, but not taking it down as I do it. It’s going to look untidy until I’m done. Apologies.

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Morozov’s use of a time-locked safe.

March 11, 2013, 10:54 am

I’ve become very strategic about my use of technology as life is short and I want to use it wisely. I have bought myself a type of laptop from which it was very easy to remove the Wi-Fi card – so when...

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PIWPNS: A site-blocking, ad-blocking, anonymising, logging VPN

March 11, 2013, 11:13 am

Forcibly avoiding the wasting-of-time-on-the-internet is hard. Evgeny Morozov uses a locked box, others use Self Control, or, indeed, self-control. But I can’t. I travel too much to rely on big steel...

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Coffitivity

March 11, 2013, 12:37 pm

Coffitivity.com – a endless stream of coffee shop background noise, to stick on your headphones to encourage a creative state. You have to love sites that cite the research that inspired their idea.

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Ian Wallace on Why The US Is Not In A Cyber War

March 11, 2013, 3:33 pm

The idea that America is in the middle of a “cyber war” isn’t just lazy and wrong. It’s dangerous. The war analogy implies the requirement for military response to cyber intrusions. America genuinely...

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Un-named Mapping Project, A Short Proposal

March 12, 2013, 1:10 pm

This is an early draft of a project I am working on. In the interests of open working, I’m putting this here. At many levels of human endeavour, we understand the world by dividing it into countries....

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“Approaching the Future” now being distributed

March 17, 2013, 5:13 pm

According to an email I just had, the first shipments of Approaching the Future the US edition of my book, 64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then, are being wrapped by Amazon as I type. If you...

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Books By Ben Hammersley – Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know...

March 17, 2013, 5:53 pm

Books By Ben Hammersley – Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then The US edition of my book is now shipping from Amazon.com

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“Now For Then: How To Face The Digital Future Without Fear” is out this week

May 20, 2013, 1:15 pm

So this is good news, if confusing. Pay attention: Now for Then: How to Face the Digital Future without Fear, the UK paperback edition of my hardback 64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then is out this...

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Paul Mason: From Sao Paulo to Taksim to Sofia: is crony capitalism facing its...

June 19, 2013, 11:31 pm

Paul Mason: From Sao Paulo to Taksim to Sofia: is crony capitalism facing its 1989? paulmasonnews: The language and the time zone changes but, from Turkey and Bulgaria to Brazil, the symbolism of...

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