Category: Politics

Looking at how the government affects us.

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New York City Skyline

11, no 9

September 8, 2012Personal, Politics9/11, A tower, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, David Hal, David Vera, Energy, Iraq, Jean Bap, Jeremy Glick, Man-Made Disaster, Mark Ellis, Media, media businesses, Melissa Vin, Michael DiPasquale, Midtown, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York, New York City, Obama, Occupy Wall Street encampment, One World Trade Center, Osama Bin Laden, presidential election, Saddam Hussein, September 11 attacks, Steve Wein, Structural engineering, the day AFTER, Tolerance, Tom McCann, Twin Towers, United States, World Trade Center, World Trade Center in popular culture, World Trade Center site, World Trade Center tower, WTC

9/11 @ 11

We, the people...

Internet balancing act

August 11, 2012PoliticsAccess, Advertising, bandwidth services, CEO, Computer law, copper infrastructure, copper telephone line network, Copyright, Dalton Caldwell, Democratic Party, Electricity, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Free Speed, Google, Internet Access, Internet balancing act It, Internet censorship, internet communities, Internet privacy, Internet Property Attache Act, Internet usage, Internet users, internet whole, law enforcement, Lowell McAdam, lower speed internet access networks, Microsoft, non-advertising, Obama administration, Paul Ryan, PicPlz, Privacy, Security, social media, SOPA, Speed, Stop Online Piracy Act, streaming video, Surveillance, text-based advertising, Twitter, U.S. Congress, United States, Verizon, Web 2.0, wireless service, wonderful technologies

Striking a balance to keep the internet alive.

The new warfare

June 2, 2012Politicsal-Qaeda, America, army, ATM, Bluetooth, China, Computer security, Computer virus, Conspiracy theories, Cyberwarfare, electronic device, electronic infrastructure, Electronic warfare, Estonia, even use bluetooth devices, Hiroshima, internet fall, Iran, Iran–United States relations, Iraq, Israel, Modern warfare, Nagasaki, nuclear device, Nuclear program of Iran, Olympic Games, physical infrastructure, Proactive Cyber Defence, Richard Clarke, Rootkits, Russia, scientist, spam networks, Stuxnet, Taiwan, telecommunication networks, trojan technologies, Ukraine, United States, US government, US military, Virus, War

It’s time for a new electronic warfare organization.

Revolution

The 7 internet political principles

April 28, 2012PoliticsAyn Rand, censorship, Computer law, digital media, final product, Fred Wilson, freedom to communicate, Information society, internet activists, Internet content, internet core philosophical principles, internet hive mind, internet ideas, internet ideology, internet look, internet philosophy, internet philosophy turn, internet political principles, internet population, internet principles, Internet sovereignty, Iran, net neutrality, Network neutrality, New media, New York, Occupy Wall Street, open source, politics, Request for Comments, Scientific revolution, technological infrastructure, United States, virtual reality

What are the political underpinnings of the internet and can they have an impact on the wider political discourse?

Hackers and Players

April 1, 2012Business, Media, Politics, Technologyapproaches to hooking up networks, Computer hacking, Computer programming, Culture, Cyberwarfare, educational tool, Electricity, Facebook, gamer, gaming, Hacker, Hacker ethic, Hacker Manifesto, hacking, Hollywood, Mainstream, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, MIT, mobile devices, on developing new approaches to hooking up networks, pure software, reward systems, Social psychology, Socialization, software methods, Tech Model Railroad Club, technology industry, technology world, telephone networks, Trends, Video game culture

The trends around supporting the idea of play as a way to learn systems co-relates to the increasing acceptance of hacking society.

A nuclear mushroom cloud

I killed the Internet

March 3, 2012Politics, Technologya lot of private networks, Access, amazon, Android, AOL, app maker, Apple, AT&T, Bluetooth, Computer law, Culture, democracy, device maker, digital media, Exxon, Facebook, flat-rate online service, General Electrics, Google, GPS, HTML, Human–computer interaction, IBM, Internet Access, internet community, internet resources, Internet Service Providers, Internet technology, Internet There, internet traffic, Internet users, Internet When, internet world, ipad, iPhone, ISP, kindle, law relating, LinkedIn, Microsoft, mobile device, mobile devices, net neutrality, Network neutrality, Open, open internet, open web version, particular online service, path, Photo sharing, Prodigy, Product Release, public internet site, search engine, search engines, silo, silo of Facebook, similar capabilities to what devices, smart phone, Smartphone, social media, social network, society, substantial infrastructure, Tim Berners-Lee, Twitter, web, Web 2.0, web browser, web interface, web server, World Wide Web, Worldnet, Yahoo

Our actions have impact

2011: The year that was

January 8, 2012Business, Media, Personal, Politics, Technology3D printing, Bitcoin, digital media, east coast, Groupon, internet channel, internet valuations, Internet War, Internet War The concept, Kinect, Kinect device, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Corporation, London, manufacturing age, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, netflix, New Year's Day, New York, New York City, Nokia, Open Web, Peer-to-peer computing, San Francisco, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, streaming, technology decline, technology scene, television, TV, United States

A recap of what I covered in 2011

The Future - next exit

The 2012 Crystal ball

January 1, 2012Business, Media, Politics, Technologyamazon, Android, Apple, Apple TV, Boxee, Facebook, Google, HTML 5, iPhone, Microsoft, Motorola, netflix, Panasonic, predictions, Roku, Samsung, Television technology, Tumblr, TV, Twitter Inc, Vizio

With a new year kicking in, it’s time for a new batch of predictions.

The Future - next exit

2011 Predictions: The scorecard

December 18, 2011Business, Media, Politics, TechnologyAndroid, AT&T, christmas, Copenhagen, Denmark, e-book, e-books, Egypt, Espionage, Facebook, Federal Communications Commission, gamification, Google Inc., Groupon, Intel, Internet Backlash, internet legislation, internet political story, Internet regulation, iPhone, kindle, LinkedIn, media product, Microsoft, National Football League, National security, Near Field Communication, New Year's Day, New York, NFC chips, NFL, Nokia, Prediction, predictions, promising technology, Region Hovedstaden, regulated internet, Security, smart phones, T-mobile, technology side, The Guardian, the New York Times, Tunisia, United States diplomatic cables leak, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks, World Wide Web, Zynga

A review of my 2011 predictions.

Bitcoin

From Euro to e-uro

December 11, 2011Politics, TechnologyATM, Automated teller machine, bank networks, Business, cash, Cheque, Currency, cyber currency, David Chaum, Digicash, digital cash, digital currency, digital money, e-cash, e-currency, e-money, e-uro, e-wallets, economics, electronic cash, electronic currency, electronic money, electronic payment systems, euro, Europe, European Union, Felica, Finance, Financial cryptography, Foreign exchange market, founder, internet payments, mastercard, mobile phones, money, NFC technologies, Numismatics, Payment systems, Paypal, potential infrastructure, printing press, smart card, United States

In the Euro failure, a potential chance for an all-digital currency.