You might like to know that on June 30th Finland closed down its last remaining line-phone network.

I would send a telegram complaining but I think that service disappeared decades ago.

François Matarasso has just alerted me to something interesting: the existence of PubPub, “the open-source, community-led, end-to-end publishing platform for knowledge communities”.

It looks interesting and I shall try to find out more.

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke and Owen Kelly report from a symposium on Digitalisation, Future Universities and Society, organised by the Swedish School of Social Science, at the University of Helsinki.

They argue that augmenting intelligence through the creation of digital and social tools will offer our best chance of delivering the best of the digital while avoiding the perils of seeking to replace social interaction with simulations and AI-driven virtual environments.