Archive - Archive for the month of January, 2010

The ravages of financial capitalism

Saturday, 30 January, 2010

Consumption, technology and finance are intimately related; exceeded by the abuses that I witness daily in the world of finance, I begin today a series of columns on the ravages of financial capitalism. Technological development, the driving force of consumption, is linked to available funding, especially since the 19th century’s industrial revolution; however, it was […]

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Poken, the latest way to network

Sunday, 10 January, 2010

Have you been pokened recently? Yes, not poked, pokened! It is far less painful and far more amusing. Pokening will shortly have to be added to our vocabulary. One may describe the practice as the mating of two palm-held digital devices the size of a USB key «to share your contact details and online social […]

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