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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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Age of the Winklevi
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...
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Paul 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...
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NPR 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...
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The 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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