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Mar 11, 2014

The Future of the Internet: Dark and Ubiquitous

In the future, the Internet will be like electricity coursing through our everyday lives — more ubiquitous but also more invisible. At least, that's the vision many experts gave to researchers in a recent survey by the Pew Research Center Internet Project. The survey, done on the 25th anniversary of...

Mar 12, 2014

World Wide Web is Going Strong After 25 years, but the Internet isn't Holding Up (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Most people would agree with the principle that good foundations are essential to any structure that is intended to last. But what if when you started building, you didn’t...

Mar 18, 2014

Surfing the Web: Protecting Identities Online

This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. By some accounts, communication through social media and the Internet played a key role in organizing the Arab Spring of early 2011. Authoritarian rulers in Egypt, Libya, and Syria considered the technology so empowering to protestors,...

Mar 19, 2014

In the Digital Age, the Humanities Can Afford to Go On the Offensive

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Humans, as a species, are around 200,000 years old. Compared to the age of the universe we’re clearly infants but compared to the internet, we’re pretty old and compared...

May 14, 2014

Experts Predict the Future of the 'Internet of Things' (Infographic)

In 2014, the 25th anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web, a new type of interconnectedness is being created. The proponents of the so-called “Internet of things” envision a world with billions of devices, products, body implants and accessories that communicate with each other and to advertisers, health...

May 14, 2014

Internet of Things Will Bring Promise and Challenges by 2025

By the year 2025, the Internet of Things will bring improvements in convenience and efficiency, but at the expense of privacy, social divisions and complex problems, experts predict. Wearable devices that track health and activity will become more widespread, smart homes will enable people to control appliances remotely and sensors...

May 27, 2014

Apple to Unveil 'Smart Home' Software Next Week, Rumors Say

Rumors are circulating that Apple is poised to introduce a new software platform next week that will enable people to use their iPhones or iPads to control lights, appliances, thermostats and other devices in their homes. Apple could present the smart home technologies at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC),...

Jun 4, 2014

Google Invests Billions on Satellites to Expand Internet Access

Google is planning to invest more than $1 billion in a new fleet of satellites that will expand Internet access to unconnected regions of the world. The company's decision to purchase 180 small, high-capacity satellites is just the first step in a project that could cost the search giant over...

Jul 21, 2014

Integrating Into the 'Internet of Things' (Op-Ed)

Kevin Curran is a reader in Computer Science at the University of Ulster and an IEEE Senior Member. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Within the next five years, using mobile devices simply for communication will seem outdated. The Internet of Things (IoT) will...

Oct 2, 2014

Is Your City Ready to Join the Internet of Things? (Op-Ed)

Michael Dixon, is general manager for IBM's global smarter cities business where he leads IBM's vision, strategy and operations for helping cities apply analytics, mobile, cloud and social technologies. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The so-called Internet of Things has passed from future-world...

Oct 9, 2014

The Internet in 2025: Blazing Speeds Could Enable Futuristic Tech

What if the Internet were 100 times faster than it is today? How would this super-high-speed connectivity affect the economy, health care and education? The Pew Research Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., recently posed these questions to experts in a range of Internet-related fields. Predictions about what the...

Oct 25, 2014

Is Online Anonymity Even Possible? (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published on& The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a post-Snowden world, anonymity is what people want online. Smartphone apps offering anonymous messaging are popping up everywhere – Secret, Whisper and now Yik Yak. The latest additions...

Nov 4, 2014

Digital Archive Lets Web Surfers Travel Back in Time

There's a tool that turns your Web browser into a time machine, and librarians at Stanford University have figured out how to use it. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web this year, Stanford created a digital archive of its bygone Web pages, some of which...

Dec 30, 2014

Workers' Tech Needs Are More Old-School Than You Think

Forget fancy new tablets or cloud computing; the technologies that today's workers really need are more basic than that. The Internet and email are the tech tools that employees say they need to get through their workdays, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. For the survey, researchers asked...

Jan 13, 2015

Why People Love the Phygital World (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Everyday objects with network connections that can collect and share data or be remotely controlled – the Internet of Things (IoT) – promise to transform the way we interact...