Luciano Floridi is an Oxford University academic with an intriguing title: professor of philosophy and ethics of information. He works at the Oxford Internet Institute. Prof Floridi has just written a ...

The infosphere, as Luciano Floridi calls it, is the combination of the internet and computer technology that is revolutionizing our lives and work. He carries the intriguing title of professor of the ...

The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century The internet age made big promises to us: a new ...

One of this morning's opening sessions at Supernova started with a workshop on the "personal infosphere," which has something to do managing information overload. I wrote about the overload of social ...

Your favours nor your hate. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene III, 59-62. [And now for something completely different… Back in 1995, we published a three-part article by Luciano Floridi in which he ...

Two new books explore how the internet is changing us and our world – but it’s too soon to tell which of the changes really matter WE LIVE in revolutionary times. Information moves around the world at ...

A new mobile application created by Dutch designer Richard Vijgen visualises the 'infosphere'—an interdependent 'network of networks' that is "populated by informational entities"—in realtime ...