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The Terrible, No Good CFAA: Giving More Power to Networks Instead of Endusers
Albert Wenger – Aug 19, 2016
I have written and talked about the need for a “right to be represented by a bot.” By a bot here I mean software that runs on my behalf as an enduser and mediates my interactions with online services. In [...] Read more
Microsoft Hololens: Some First Observations
Albert Wenger – Aug 17, 2016
I recently ordered and received a developer edition of Microsoft’s Hololens. This is me looking goofy wearing it at the USV office: TL;DR: the Hololens is a well executed preview of an amazing augmented reality future. Compared to the Vive [...] Read more
All Hands: Take Questions in Advance
Albert Wenger – Aug 10, 2016
And now for something different: just some pragmatic advice. You should run all hands meetings in your company. They are a key bonding and communication opportunity. You can have them until you are quite large – for instance, Twilio, which [...] Read more
Sign All Things
Albert Wenger – Aug 8, 2016
I have written repeatedly about why I don’t think “encrypt all things” is the right answer for constructing a democratic society going forward. I am, however, a fan of the idea to “sign all things.” What I mean by this [...] Read more
Alternative Compliance
Nick Grossman – Aug 4, 2016
To better support small businesses operating in regulated sectors, we should develop “alternative compliance” mechanisms — parallel regulatory regimes that achieve the goals of existing regulations but take an alternative, data-oriented approach to achieving them. Such an approach would be [...] Read more
Thinking about Leaving Tumblr: Looking for a Decentralized Blog Network
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2016
My blog Continuations has been on Tumblr since I started writing it a bit over eight years ago. But now I am seriously considering moving away from Tumblr. There have always been limitations, such as difficulty embedding certain types of [...] Read more
Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
Albert Wenger – Jul 28, 2016
HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and publish their own content. And anybody with a web browser can access that content (subject to governments and ISPs imposing limitations). [...] Read more
Geoengineering
Albert Wenger – Jul 25, 2016
The topic of climate change combines many of my scientific and philosophical interests. In my draft book World After Capital I describe how knowledge is central to human affairs in that it allows us to solve problems. Many of the [...] Read more
What Did You Do? What Will I Have Done?
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2016
You may have noticed that my posting here on Continuations has been sporadic at best these past few weeks. The reason is simple. I have felt downbeat by what’s been happening in the world and the United States. The rolling [...] Read more