a solution to facebook: regulation, yes, but also a simpler tech
The future of social networks lies in simpler technology, not (just) in regulation, and definitely not in more complex technology.
Category Archives: Technology history
the digitally ass-backwards age
We’re living in a digitally ass backwards age, where everything you do of commercial monetary value is retained, amazingly easy to recover and commercially mined at mind-boggling speed, but everything else — photos, an SMS, an email you sent to someone last week, the deed to your house — is lost in the muddle of that drive an inch or two from your finger tips.
were we ever free of walled gardens?
Reading through the documents released by the U.S. Judiciary Committee, I’m struck by how early we lost the war on walled gardens. I take a deeper dive and see where it all went wrong