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The Big Questions About The Future (Transition to the Information Age)
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2014
At DLD earlier this week I gave a talk that’s an illustrated and expanded version of my recent blog post about Entering the Information Age. And here are the slides, including a final slide with image credits (most images come [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: You are the Principal
Albert Wenger – Jan 22, 2014
One of the many benefits of homeschooling is that it allows for fine grained quality control. With a school you are getting a complete bundle and if the math teacher is no good in a particular grade you are basically [...] Read more
Protect People, Not Data
Albert Wenger – Jan 21, 2014
Having grown up in Germany, I am well acquainted with “Datenschutz” or literally “data protection” – a set of attitudes, laws and regulations around how companies should deal with data collected from individuals. In the wake of the NSA disclosures [...] Read more
Net Neutrality: Why We Need Regulation
Albert Wenger – Jan 16, 2014
We live in the Chelsea part of Manhattan, which in turn is part of New York City, one of the iconic cities of the US and arguably the world. We have exactly one broadband provider available at our address. There [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Online Classes are “Ageless”
Albert Wenger – Jan 15, 2014
One of the great opportunities in homeschooling is the amazing access that now exists to classes online. Whether it is EdX, Coursera or Skillshare, there is a wealth of classes and it is growing seemingly by the hour. One advantage [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Best, Average and Worst Case
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2014
In the last two Tech Tuesdays, I introduced the topic of computational complexity. Today as promised I want to dig a bit deeper into the question of best, average and worst case complexity. The canonical example used for this is [...] Read more
Entering the Information Age
Albert Wenger – Jan 13, 2014
Here on Continuations I have covered a lot of seemingly disparate topics such as the end of work, government surveillance and the digital balkans. They are, however, all part of my fascination with the transition from the industrial age to [...] Read more
Keeping the Internet Open in 2014: All Hands on Deck
Albert Wenger – Jan 9, 2014
For the New Year, I tweeted that we should “ll work together in 2014 to keep the Internet open for the benefit of humankind everywhere." That couldn’t be any more pressing as there is a full scale assault under way [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Exponential Growth
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2014
At the end of last year before going away for the holidays, I laid out a miniature program for learning / teaching about rates of change. The first step was to appreciate the tremendous difference between linear and exponential change. [...] Read more