Thursday, August 20, 2009
Paul Is Dead
The release next month of The Beatles™: Rock Band™ is shaping up to be the cultural event of the year, if not the millennium to date.
Monday, June 29, 2009
The Sour Wikipedian
Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That’s the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
For whom the Google tolls
It’s amazing that, before Google came along, any of us was able to survive beyond childhood.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Google in the Middle
Three truths: 1. Google is a middleman made of software. It’s a very, very large middleman made of software.
Does Google Really Control the News?
Once again, Google is the favorite bogeyman responsible for the rapid deterioration in the health of the news industry.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
A Prescription for Smart Pills
In response to the flood of prescription brain stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall on college campuses, a group of academics from Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge, Penn, and other schools say the time has come to allow such drugs to be prescribed to healthy people for “cognitive enhancement.”
Friday, December 5, 2008
The Trailer Park Is the Computer
Microsoft is about to take trailer park computing, or, as The Register has dubbed it, white trash computing, to its logical and necessary conclusion. The company’s next generation of utility data centers will take the form of–you guessed it–trailer parks: sprawling, roofless parking lots in which all the components–server clusters, power units, security systems–will be prefabricated offsite, packed into containers or other types of “modules,” trucked in, and plopped down on the ground as needed.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Xeroxing the Brain
Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, have published an in-depth roadmap for “whole brain emulation”–in other words, the replication of a fully functional human brain inside a computer.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Zuckerberg’s Second Law
There’s something about the crisp autumn air that brings out the philosopher in Mark Zuckerberg. At this week’s Web 2.0 Summit, the Facebook founder mused, according to Saul Hansell of the New York Times, “I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and [the] next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before.”
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The New Economics of Computing
Are we missing the point about cloud computing? That question has been rattling around in my mind for the last few days, as the chatter about the role of the cloud in business IT has intensified. The discussion to date has largely had a retrospective cast, focusing on the costs and benefits of shifting existing IT functions and operations from in-house data centers into the cloud.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The Centripetal Web
When I started blogging, back in the spring of 2005, I would visit Technorati, the blog search engine, several times a day, both to monitor mentions of my own blog and to track discussions on subjects I was interested in writing about. But over the last year or so my blog-searching behavior has changed.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Apple Declares War on Sneaker Hackers
Apple has applied for a patent to–no joke–extend digital rights management to tennis shoes and other articles of clothing. “What is desired,” the patent application says, “is a method of electronically pairing a sensor and an authorized garment.”
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Cloud’s Chrome Lining
Google’s release Tuesday of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet “cloud.”
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Easy Does it
A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship.” Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles from science journals. He discovered a paradox: As journals begin [...]
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Encryption and the Law
The rise of cloud computing raises a lot of legal issues, and one of the thorniest involves the variations in national laws governing the storage and use of personal and other information. Controls on data threaten, for instance, to prevent certain information from being stored in data centers outside a user’s home country, hence eroding some of the efficiencies promised by a global cloud.
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