The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free.
Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible. Indeed, copies flow so freely we could think of the internet as a super-distribution system, where once a copy is introduced it will continue to flow through the network forever, much like electricity in a superconductive wire. We see evidence of this in real life. Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can't erase something once its flowed on the internet.
Two-way latent grouping model for user preference prediction
Eerika Savia, Kai Puolamäki, Janne Sinkkonen and Samuel Kaski
In: UAI 2005, 26-29 July 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Icon Models, Toronto has partnered up with Japanese Forza Models in an effort to broaden their business potential and to provide more opportunities for their models.
The InfluSim Project
Making Pandemic Influenza Modelling Tools Available to the Public
With the emergence of the Mexican flu we have decided to make all our pandemic influenza modelling and simulation tools available on the web. We encourage health care policy makers to use this software. And we would appreciate if other mathematical modellers made their pandemic influenza software public, too.
Das Internet ist kein Plattenladen. Sorry, aber da habense dich angelogen. Das Internet ist statt dessen so eine Art Radio- oder Fernsehsender. Merkt man schon daran, dass es Strom braucht. Du kannst da Sachen draus “aufnehmen”, wie beim Radio, aber nichts draus wegnehmen (“stehlen”).