Larry speaks with Jeff Jarvis, author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, about how the age of print was an exception in history. And while it lasted half a millennium, we are now coming to the other end of it. What that means, and where do we go from here? Listen wherever...
By Larry Magid ConnectSafely Senior Researcher and Oxford University graduate student Nathan Davies contributed to this article If you ever experience or hear others panic about new technologies, consider the historical context. We’ve been hearing about moral panics...
In 1474, people petitioned the Republic of Genoa (now Italy) to outlaw the printing press. Image: David Gray (Creative Commons License)Scroll down for narrated slide show Posts & Podcast They Built What?! A Deeper Dive into Techno-Panics (long in-depth article)...
By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News and is based on a narrated slide deck and a much longer article that you can view here. There has been a lot of ink spilled on doomsday scenarios about Generative AI, including a statement signed by several...
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Virtual Reality (VR) headsets have been on the market for years, including several iterations from Meta’s Reality Labs, most recently its Quest 3 headset, introduced late last year. And while millions of VR...
