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A Time of Demagogues and False Prophets
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2011
I have been struck recently by how much is being said and published by politicians and their supporters that is outright wrong. The latest attempts to rewrite slavery as a time of “family values” for African Americans is yet another [...] Read more
Rewriting the Tax Code
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2011
I wrote a bit of a rant recently about the structural changes in our economy and society that need to be addressed. What we are getting instead – not surprisingly – is a lame last minute compromise on the debt [...] Read more
A Brief History of Disruption: Classified Ads
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2011
As I have been preparing for my talk in Edinburgh in August, I have been collecting examples of disruption. One that I am particularly fond of because so much has happened in the last 15 years are classified ads. Here [...] Read more
Twilio: Bringing Simple Yet Powerful Communications to the Client Side
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2011
The team at Twilio has done an amazing job making telephony accessible to developers. Making and accepting calls, as well as sending and receiving texts is now as easy as a couple of lines of code. The simplicity of Twilio’s [...] Read more
Intellectual Ventures Called Out
Albert Wenger – Jul 25, 2011
If anybody still has any illusions about the current state of dysfunction of the patent system in the US, please make sure they listen to or read This American Life’s investigation of Intellectual Ventures (IV). IV was founded and is [...] Read more
Making Room for TTT: Time To Think
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2011
A while back I announced on this blog that we were planning to move back to the city. I am happy to report that we have made a lot of progress on that and are now in contract to buy [...] Read more
Government Debt and Structural Social Change (A Rant)
Albert Wenger – Jul 19, 2011
The debt showdown in Washington is supremely frustrating as it illustrates the complete inability of our current political system to deal with the structural changes that we are facing. At present course and speed things will get a lot worse [...] Read more
Probabilistic Identity and Catfish
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2011
Last night Susan and I watched “Catfish,” a movie from last year about a case of a fabricated online identity. The movie starts with a young man who is engaged in an online correspondence with what he believes to be [...] Read more
Preparing for talk at Turing Festival in Edinburgh: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Albert Wenger – Jul 14, 2011
I am very excited to be preparing for a talk at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh (last week of August). The subject, not surprisingly, will be “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet - how the Internet will transform business, government and [...] Read more