Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Let’s take a look today at a few recent stories that may not have made the front page of your newspaper or the top story on TV or been faved on your favorite web news site but which are still worth knowing about.
Category: Notes From The Electronic Cottage
A weekly feature on electronic technology as it affects everyday life with Jim Campbell. Broadcast on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME every Thursday at 7:30 AM.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/10/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Is the web a digital marketplace of ideas in which all sorts of ideas are available to us so we can figure out what is true and what is not? Maybe – but maybe not. Here’s a few things we might want to mull over about a digital marketplace of ideas.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/3/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
It’s end of model year sale time for cars and lots of folks are buying new cars. But just what are we buying when we get a new car today? We’re sure getting a lot of computer power, and that can be both a blessing and a problem.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/27/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Time for another peek to research going on in Japan, Europe, and the US that will probably affect our digital lives – and maybe our physical health – in the not too distant future.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/20/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Digital technology can have huge implications for people’s identity, both pro and con. Here are some examples of both.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/13/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
It’s August which means blueberries here in Maine, and means hacker conferences out in Las Vegas. The Internet of Things was center stage out there, and, sure enough, there is a serious security flaw in how all those “smart” devices in our homes and on our bodies communicate with one another which could result in some pretty unpleasant consequences around the house.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/6/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
As more and more things that we use every day, from cars to health bracelets, get connected to the Internet, and as personal information gets aggregated and stored in large centralized databases, the odds keep going up and up that one of these days, our personal information is going to get hacked. Here are some recent indications.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/23/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Much of the current attention about artificial intelligence takes either a “gee whiz – ain’t it cool” tone, or a “humans are doomed” tone. No matter how we think about artificial intelligence, especially when embedded in robots, one thing is very clear – our legal system isn’t ready for it. Here’s why.