In 2003, “wifi” went from geek toy to mainstream. But WiFi is only part of a much larger revolution in how people access and use the electromagnetic spectrum. Now, numerous competing and ill-fiting anaologies, “property,” “public commons,” “public trust” battle it out among Washington regulators. What’s at stake? While it sounds hyperbolic, this regulatory battle ground holds the key to the next stage of evolution of information technology. This is a background piece. I will post the current developments piece later.
Month: February 2004
Tales of the Sausage Factory: Why A Comcast/Disney Merger Sucks Rocks
This op ed appeared in the industry Magazine Broadcasting and Cable on Monday Feb. 23.
They forgot the ever-popular “dictator handshaking style”
Ah, Donald Rumsfeld… Secretary of Defense, coddler of dictators , and master of many arcane forms of martial arts. Truly a man for all seasons.
Wetmachine so far
Half a year (or so) ago I decided to get serious about livening up my Wetmachine website. Wetmachine had been around since October 1999, but I had only updated it a few times. I wanted to transform it into a site that people would come back to. A blog of some kind was clearly in order.
Knowing that it would be a drag, not to mention probably impossible, to singlehandedly make Wetmachine sufficiently compelling to warrant return visits, I invited some friends to play along. About three months ago we made the switch to blog format. Read on for some brief musings on the experiment so far.
Tales of the Sausage Factory: RFID– Are Smart Clothes a Smart Idea
Most folks have yet to hear of RFID, or radio frequency ID tags. As explained in this article in The Nation, RFID opens a host of interesting issues.
Nanotech hiring.. philosophers?
An article in the Washington Post provides a general overview of nanotech. The one interesting fact that caught me eye: nanotech companies and researchers are hiring sociologists, philosophers, and ethicists, in attempt to get ahead of the curve on public opinion.
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Tales of the Sausage Factory: Why A Comcast/Disney Merger Sucks Rocks
This op ed appeared in the industry Magazine Broadcasting and Cable on Monday Feb. 23.
They forgot the ever-popular “dictator handshaking style”
Ah, Donald Rumsfeld… Secretary of Defense, coddler of dictators , and master of many arcane forms of martial arts. Truly a man for all seasons.
Wetmachine so far
Half a year (or so) ago I decided to get serious about livening up my Wetmachine website. Wetmachine had been around since October 1999, but I had only updated it a few times. I wanted to transform it into a site that people would come back to. A blog of some kind was clearly in order.
Knowing that it would be a drag, not to mention probably impossible, to singlehandedly make Wetmachine sufficiently compelling to warrant return visits, I invited some friends to play along. About three months ago we made the switch to blog format. Read on for some brief musings on the experiment so far.
Tales of the Sausage Factory: RFID– Are Smart Clothes a Smart Idea
Most folks have yet to hear of RFID, or radio frequency ID tags. As explained in this article in The Nation, RFID opens a host of interesting issues.
Nanotech hiring.. philosophers?
An article in the Washington Post provides a general overview of nanotech. The one interesting fact that caught me eye: nanotech companies and researchers are hiring sociologists, philosophers, and ethicists, in attempt to get ahead of the curve on public opinion.