Britain’s digital dilemma
Superfast broadband for everyone in Britain. That’s one of the main long-term goals of the Digital Economy Act 2010. Sounds attractive, doesn’t it? Especially – you’d think – for people who make their living online. More people with broadband means a bigger audience and more customers, right?
Cory Doctorow, a novelist and copyright reform campaigner, confesses [...]
Globalisation, an interconneted world?
The crisis in the US mortgage markets sent shock waves hurtling around the world and culminated in the Northern Rock debacle. How can an economic meltdown triggered by defaulting mortgages thousands of miles away affect an established building society in the UK? This is globalisation laid bare: spiralling house prices in the US making an [...]