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 The main idea behind the book is to alter the idea of copyright legislation. In the first chapter, the writer begins the paragraph by denoting the fact that youngsters can be seen as criminals in the eyes of law because of copyrighted file sharing.  Living in the internet era, it does not seem possible to establish a rule or ban against file transferring between citizens. There is no technology to differentiate the copyrighted material and the private messages without revealing the information.  Another interesting scenario that the writer mention is that if people spend less money on purchasing CDs, they will spend the revenue to buy concert tickets which are more lucrative for artists than buying a CD. Furthermore, people in the past were not fully aware of the power of public libraries. Many people and authors were against public libraries because if people would use the same book without purchasing, the author could not earn money. However, it turned out that public ...

 I have always been interested in the idea and prediction of future technological trends. In this article, I will introduce the main ideas of the report "Challenges Of The Global Information Society" by Pekka Himanen. Pekka Himanen is one of the cited researchers in the world in the field of philosophy. He was the youngest PhD-holder in Finland when he graduated. He is currently pursuing his research and work at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. In the first paragraphs, the writer illustrates 10 global trends of the world in bullet points. Currently, there are only 3 technological and economic dynamic models - “Silicon Valley model”, “Singapore model”, “Finnish model”. "Silicon Valley model" is also referred to as the neo-liberalist model of the United States. It is mainly practiced in the western world. An interesting fact is that in the year 1990, 60 millionaires were produced from the Silicon Valley area. The second model, the "Singapore mod...

Over the years, Google has offered a wide variety of services to establish itself as one of the largest companies in the world. To make these services free, Google keeps track of your data and uses it for personalized ads. As the debate about Google's online privacy increases, people are looking for a new alternative search engine. Well, DuckDuckGo might be your new choice of search engine.  DuckDuckGo is a search engine built-in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg. It is the most visited 8th search engine after the most famous ones like Google, Bing, Yahoo. It defines itself as "the search engine which does not collect your data". Nearly all the search engines collect your data and use it for showing personalized advertisements. However, DuckDuckGo does not track you and your data. Since the website was created, its popularity of it increased dramatically - from nearly 80.000 daily visits to 24 million visits. DuckDuckGo's privacy policy is clearly written, and they collect onl...

 From ARPAnet to Facebook: The Story of Cyberspace 1) The 3.5mm phone connector. When it comes to old cables or connectors, usually they do not last long and are usually renewed as the newer faster, and cheaper options arise due to the rapid development of the tech industry. However, we can not say the same for the 3.5mm phone connector commonly known as the "headphone jack" or "audio jack". Although the first designs were available for it from back in the 1950s, it is still a widely available and used connector type. Despite some large phone manufacturers' efforts to ditch the headphone jack completely off the newer phones or mobile devices to switch to Bluetooth altogether, the 3.5mm headphone jack is still the most popular wired audio connector available on the market. Most of the headphone and headset manufacturers still design models that use 3.5mm phone connectors as their audio input/output method. And also almost all of the modern computers come factory ...