SCRIPTed December 2011

The new issue of SCRIPTEd is now online. (2011) 8:3 SCRIPTed 226-339 Issue DOI: 10.2966/scrip.080311 Cover Crystals Editorial Law Meets Biology: Are Our Databases Eligible For Legal Protection? | HTML | PDF | Michele Oliva and Marcelo Corrales, pp.226-228 The authors look at the interaction the European Database Directive, existing Read more

By Andres Guadamuz, ago

Cyberpunk 2.0

I am currently reading REAMDE, Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, and although I am still going through the initial pages (I am savouring it as I do most of Stephenson’s work), and it already has me thinking about new trends in literature. Cyberpunk is a well-defined post-modern sub-genre within science fiction, Read more

By Andres Guadamuz, ago

The PC is not dead

This is a response to Johnathan Zittrain’s article entitled, surprisingly, The Personal Computer is Dead. I say surprisingly because the title is a bit deceiving, and the content has little to do with the death of the PC as such, 98% of the piece is spent talking about Apple’s closed Read more

By Andres Guadamuz, ago