What the Internet needs, demands, and will get is a free market. A free market for access, a free market for content, a free market for users and providers both, at every level.

What the Internet needs, demands, and will get is a free market. A free market for access, a free market for content, a free market for users and providers both, at every level.

College athletics is dieing. Bottom line. If it's not already dead. Someone needs to bring the corpse back to life, on behalf of the meaning of college, which is education, and not a $5 million salary for the next hack who takes the Alabama job.

You think the Internet's something now? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Microsoft has hired thousands of "high bandwidth" people from top schools over the last decade, but it has very little to show for it all. The biggest mistake has been a lack of entrepreneurial passion -- it's much easier to say no than yes at today's Microsoft. Elvis has left the building, and Steve Ballmer is not Elvis. He's not even an Elvis impersonator.

Only after supplies become plentiful do you then need to make choices between hydrocarbons and other energy forms. But that day will come quickly.

The reason for all this is our collective failure to respond adequately to Hurricand Katrina. In the wake of this failure the best people, and the middle class, have fled these areas, leaving behind the lazy, the criminal, the bigoted, and the victims.

If Craigslist chose to consider its own interests first, it would inevitably create an opening for some other entrepreneur. And in fact there are several more capitalistic, entrepreneurial efforts aimed at taking money from Craigslist. Some are even making money. But they're not grabbing big hunks of market share.

There will be history played out over the next two years. A lot of history. There was a lot of historical distance betwen 1966 and 1968 as well. Can Barack Obama ride that wave? I don't know. And I don't care. But the Barack Obama boomlet is still a hopeful moment.

There are about 50 naturally-occurring zeolites, and over the years scientists have created another 180. Zeem's database of zeolite designs has...3.4 million. And it's growing.