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Google’s much discussed Project Glass offers a banal vision of augmented reality. While predicting the future has historically proved a crapshoot, science-fiction writers free of commercial considerations might have more to tell us about what tomorrow will look like.

Kodak is going bankrupt not because it failed to anticipate the shift from analogue to digital, but because it failed to understand why people take photographs in the digital age.

A new web technology is promising to do for video what the web originally did for text. ‘Popcorn’ makes augmented video a reality, as evidenced by the new augmented documentary ‘One Millionth Tower’.

#OpDarknet, the Anonymous offensive against online paedophile activity, has drawn further attention to the Dark Web – the hidden online world where anonymity attracts those with something to hide.

The recent LulzSec arrests have highlighted the fact that virtual private network providers are under no obligation to safeguard the privacy of your online communications. Now dissidents must question who they can trust online.

Two recent hacking incidents have highlighted the increasing fragility of the Internet’s core infrastructure and serve as a stark reminder that security on the Internet is somewhat illusory.

Bitcoin is a “cryptographic currency” that was first proposed in 2008 by a programmer using the supposed alias Satoshi Nakamoto. There are currently around 63.6 million USD of Bitcoin in circulation.