“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth,” said John F. Kennedy on 25 May 1961. His politics was decisive in helping the USA become the first nation to put a man on the moon. 500 Million people...

Questions of access are central to the notions of the Internet as a new space of freedom that became popular with the emergence of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s and have continued to flourish with Web 2.0 and beyond. The Chinese government...

Steve Ballmer sells operating systems, spreadsheet and word processing software. His performative manners however are reminiscent of a fanatical priest, hyped-up market-trader or dogged show-fighter. Where does he...

Already back in the early 1990s John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt of the RAND Corporation warned that “Cyberwar is Coming.” Now, almost two decades of the Internet later, it seems to be here. National governments are developing both defense and attack strategies for cyberspace and terrorist groupings are exploring new ways to do damage online. Although it takes place...