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...educator Mushon Zer-Aviv suggests there's a way to make it work...In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of...

...technology. It wouldn’t be surprising if you haven’t heard of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who must be considered the World’s first computer programmer – even though she died almost a century before the first computers roared into life. Ada was born in December 1815 into a life of wealth and privilege as the only legitimate daughter of the poet Lord...

...technology of the modern world. Increasingly electronics is at the cutting edge of technology, as illustrated in the following video. TIM DRYSDALE Electronics has come a long way in seven decades. Even more importantly, it’s helped the world develop at a pace that is unprecedented in human history. BERNIE CLARK Ray Kurzweil estimates the next 100 years will bring a rate...