Steven Wright, Where Are You?

Does anyone else think it’s odd that today, Warren Buffett made the biggest private gift in history, and he gave it to… Bill Gates?

What Makes Elizabeth Warren's Platform Proposal So Potentially Important. by Harold March 12, 2019 As always when I talk politics, I remind folks that this blog is my personal blog, which I had well before I joined my current…
My Insanely Long Field Guide To The C-Band Spectrum Fight, And Why This Won't End In December. by Harold November 13, 2019 Like most everything else at the FCC these days, problems that have relatively simple and straightforward solutions turn into horrible complicated messes. Take the C-Band,…
We Need To Fix Media, Not Just Social Media -- Part III by Harold November 28, 2018 This is part of a continuing series of mine on platform regulation published by my employer, Public Knowledge. You can find the whole series here. You can find…
The Market for Privacy Lemons. Why "The Market" Can't Solve The Privacy Problem Without Regulation. by Harold February 15, 2019 Practically every week, it seems, we get some new revelation about the mishandling of user information that makes people very upset. Indeed, people have become…
Political Advertising In Crisis: What We Should Learn From the Warren/Facebook Ad Flap. by Harold October 17, 2019 [This is largely a reprint from a blog post originally posted on the Public Knowledge blog.] The last week or so has highlighted the complete…
We Need To Fix News Media, Not Just Social Media -- Part II by Harold October 29, 2018 This is part of a continuing series of mine on platform regulation published by my employer, Public Knowledge. You can find the whole series here.…

About Stearns

Howard Stearns works at High Fidelity, Inc., creating the metaverse. Mr. Stearns has a quarter century experience in systems engineering, applications consulting, and management of advanced software technologies. He was the technical lead of University of Wisconsin's Croquet project, an ambitious project convened by computing pioneer Alan Kay to transform collaboration through 3D graphics and real-time, persistent shared spaces. The CAD integration products Mr. Stearns created for expert system pioneer ICAD set the market standard through IPO and acquisition by Oracle. The embedded systems he wrote helped transform the industrial diamond market. In the early 2000s, Mr. Stearns was named Technology Strategist for Curl, the only startup founded by WWW pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. An expert on programming languages and operating systems, Mr. Stearns created the Eclipse commercial Common Lisp programming implementation. Mr. Stearns has two degrees from M.I.T., and has directed family businesses in early childhood education and publishing.

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