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How Do We Get To Fair? The Video Industry and Tech Change
On Friday night, my son and his friend wanted to watch either Thor or Captain America. We don’t have cable, but I’m hooked up with iTunes and Amazon. All I wanted to do was rent one of them. But I...
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Seatbelts and Cellphones: Re-wiring Driving Practices
On the mobile while mobile front, Abdul Shabeer of the Anna University of Technology in Tamilnadu, India has published a paper (“Technology to prevent mobile phone accidents” in Int. J. Enterprise...
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Netflix, Closed-Captioning, and a Legal Settlement
Back in July, I posted about Netflix’s lost bid to have the a lawsuit against it thrown out of court. A class action lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Deaf asserted that Netflix...
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Clay Shirky, MOOCs, and Living the Deeper Mission of Education
Seems like the discussion about MOOCs so often gets cast in an “us vs. them” narrative, with people wondering whether or not the new guy on the block will supplant the venerable institutions of higher...
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The Fairphone—A Good Start at Ethical Hardware
Casey Johnson at Ars Technica (“Fairphone” looks to give power back to customers): The “Fairphone,” a phone that purports to approach smartphone design in the most ethical way possible from every...
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Defending Patents Against Patents
Some news in the tech patent world yesterday, where Jared Favole and Brent Kendall reported in the Washington Post (Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms) that The White House on...
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John F. Kennedy and One Person, Armed With Powerful Technology
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. I wasn’t alive when it happened, so it is not an event that really touched me personally. Yet, the anniversary has led me to...
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