Category Archives: MIT

After Facebook fails

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Doc Searls

Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our time: that the Web, with … Continue reading →

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What does cognitive science say about privacy and the Net?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Doc Searls

Here’s what one dictionary says: World English Dictionary privacy (ˈpraɪvəsɪ, ˈprɪvəsɪ) — n 1. the condition of being private or withdrawn; seclusion 2. the condition of being secret; secrecy 3. philosophy the condition of being necessarily restricted to a single … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, MIT, News, Research, Science, Technology, VRM | 9 Comments