The 2020s and Beyond

Over the last two years inflation has fallen from about 9% to about 3%. But the last mile toward the...

When the Web was young, open source helped lead innovation. Individual programmers and small companies joined together, under a shared...

Cloud computing is the great technological miracle of the 21st century. All the advances of the Internet in the last...

I was working on a piece about AT&T’s latest horror today.  It’s sort of my bete noir. My blog was...

AI Infrastructure is the first upgrade to basic technology since the iPhone. Right now, it’s highly proprietary. History says it...

Abortion. Education. Civil rights. Health care.  Guns. Social Security. Climate. Democracy. On issues that matter in peoples’ lives, Republicans have...

Thirty years ago, I didn’t have to upgrade my computer for the Internet. Browsers worked on most machines of the...

We know that cars don’t scale. They won’t allow construction of dense cities. The average car is about 6 feet...

When a parliamentary coalition becomes unpopular, it resists the popular will. This is doubly true when the majority is narrow....

Back when I was a kid, stocks were a pretty illiquid investment. I had to visit a broker. We had...