The link between steroids and the American failure was not remarked upon by the American press. And that is the biggest scandal of all.

It's not just that bands can create their own demand, with Web sites, with sites like MySpace, it's that individual entrepreneurs now have the opportunity to create demand outside the publishers' system.

The state of your Internet is the state of your economy. The more bandwidth you have, the more readily available it is, the richer you are. The less you have, the less available it is, the poorer you are. This is true for corporations, for nations, for individuals.

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 […]