Writing aroused fascination for technology – New Technology

EDITORIAL. Author of the new Millennium when the book also passionate interest in technology, and endeavoring details. It writes Ny Teknik’s chief editor Susanna Baltscheffsky.

Resurrection of the future of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has been huge . Most has revolved around whether it is right or wrong by Norstedts to publish more books in the acclaimed series.

For a technology newspaper it is more interesting to find out how realistic heroine Lisbeth Salander methods to hack into the computer systems and files.

Ny Teknik reporter Monica Kleja has gone in depth with the issue. She interviews some of the experts who were consulted by the author David Lagercrantz. The picture they give is that he really strives to make technology depictions as authentic as possible.

Our reporter succeed unexpected contact with Lagercrantz which sits in the middle of a book signing in London. He tells of a passion for technology and science. But raised in a högintellektuellt home, where literature and culture was the center of the family, was not the talks on technical achievements.

For Ny Teknik readers reveals David Lagercrantz how he carried his books on Lans and Alan Turing discovered the fascination of technology. Today, he identifies himself as a technology geek. And he tells of an unpublished novel about Sweden Aktuelle Stephen Hawking.

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Just now it’s hard to write an editorial without mentioning the many people fleeing war in their countries. The image of the three-year old Alan who drowned on the way to Europe has been shaken and led people to act.

People displaced often live in difficult conditions. In refugee camps, with hundreds of thousands of residents needed clean water, electricity, lighting, latrines, cooking facilities, mobile networks – the list is long.

New innovations are in demand and recently, UNHCR Innovation started. In cooperation with them, IKEA has developed 1:18 square meters flyktinghus, a different technical solution is a simple text-based system for the reunification of families, another is the development of Skype-based schooling in the camps.

The needs are many, but there are solutions too.