A short history-of-business article that tries to use the past to predict the future of WiFi and VoIP: Shirky: Customer-owned Networks and ZapMail. This was found on Slashdot. The analysis … Continue reading »
A Slate article on how drug treatment programs for teens tends to result in teens becoming real addicts. The argument is that most teens are trying on different identities, … Continue reading »
Here’s a Slate article on why I-Mode and SMS haven’t really taken off and the US: There’s No Place Like Home – Why American teens don’t want the new cell … Continue reading »
Here’s a Slate article discussing Rawl’s difference principle, i.e.: economic inequalities are justified only if they benefit the worst-off members of society. The primary problem with this principle, and how it’s … Continue reading »
The Wall Street Journal article on Tivo picking out weird suggestions. That, or Tivo suggestions as images of the self. Something like that.
A Columbia University professor, dumpster diving into NYC Sanitation Department records, has found a number of counterintuitive things about the amount of garbage we’ve been throwing out of the past … Continue reading »
I picked up Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital in London at the Economist store on a whim. It’s a very interesting book, bridging development economics and libertarian … Continue reading »
Here’s Paul Kennedy’s article in the Financial Times about America’s “unipolar moment”: In global military terms now only one player on the field now counts – the US. In the wake … Continue reading »