Imagine a smart chair
Hearing others’ visions for the future of the Net can be inspiring. But a lot of the time it’s not. One thing I’m struck by with the explosion of social media, in particular, is the shallow nature of...
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Vanity Fair published a piece this week on a lawsuit against the Huffington Post by two Democratic political consultants “for failing to acknowledge what they claim was their critical role in the...
View ArticlePaul Romer and The Great Stagnation
Today I downloaded Tyler Cowen’s new e-book The Great Stagnation for $4, along with Amazon’s Kindle app for Android. It’s got both the publishing and economics blogospheres all aflutter so I’m looking...
View ArticleNPR on patent trolls
A friend asked for my thoughts on NPR’s piece from a few weeks back on “patent trolls.” Whereas, I am fairly confident about my views on copyright, I’m much less so with respect to patents. But...
View ArticleThe Progress of Urban Development
This is a quick departure from the blog’s main topics, but I’ve been writing a series for The Atlantic Cities launch, sponsored by Dow, on “The Progress of Urban Development.” The last post went up...
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