Can you imagine if Google set-up an ISP subsidiary that would run WiMax around cities from its current fiber and act as a master FONero affiliate?

The law, in other words, has been turned on its head, censoring speech rather than encouraging it. The comic tells this story well.

While my own initial forays into the World of Always-On were a bit out-there and generalized, especially on the medical front, it is gratifying to see that I wasn't crazy, and that real medical applications for Always-On are coming.

Glenn Greenwald has a post up right now asking a question that has concerned me for some time. How far are Bush’s most fervent supporters willing to go in order to retain power? (The picture is of leaders from a 1976 Argentine Junta, one of many which transformed that country from one of the hemisphere’s […]

American politics runs in generational cycles. We can go back nearly 200 years and find identical patterns. A crisis leads to new political coalitions, new myths, new values, and a new storyline about how to address things. A thesis tests these new myths and values, finds them valid, then gives them power over just about […]

I don't know if you have noticed this, but gadgets are foreign. Even those with U.S. labels on them, such as the iPod, are made overseas.

Congress got a John Kerry sighting yesterday, and he appeared to be championing the issue of the Broadband Gap. Kerry spoke on behalf of having the FCC let spectrum between TV stations be used for unlicensed services, and actually chided the Bush Administration on failing to meet its goal (pushed by the Bells) of getting […]

Prices fall, people are forced to sell, prices fall some more. Prices fall, loans go bad, the price of money goes up, and prices fall some more. It is going to happen. The only question is when.

There is a reason I never feared John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness plan, why I don’t even fear the secret NSA equivalent now being built. It won’t work. My suspicions were confirmed this week by Bruce Schneier, a name to reckon with. Schneier runs Counterpane. He is THE leading computer security expert on the planet. […]

I’m old enough to have a pleasant feeling of deja vu watching Democrats debate. As a youngster I watched the exact same debate, from the other side.  In the 1960s there were three Republican Parties: Javits Republicans, centered at the heart of Democratic power, who sought to modify (slightly) the incumbents’ programs but generally went […]