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#StopTheSlowLane
Albert Wenger – May 15, 2014
In Washington DC today the FCC will meet to consider a notice of proposed rule making that has the potential for creating fast lanes, slow lanes and no lanes for your Internet access at home. I have blogged a lot [...] Read more
Climate Change and Short Term Politics
Albert Wenger – May 13, 2014
Yesterday I wrote about the depressing lack of engineers and scientists in government. Part of my point was that more than ever we are facing problems caused by and solvable with science and engineering. A sampling of stories from yesterday [...] Read more
What is Progress?
Albert Wenger – May 9, 2014
When I first started talking to Dina who is helping me with research, I explained that I consider myself a technology optimist. By which I mean that I am optimistic that over time we the human species will figure out [...] Read more
Fight for the Internet Now!
Albert Wenger – May 7, 2014
The Internet is a most amazing thing that we are unfortunately taking for granted. At its core it is about connecting all of humanity with each other. With it we, the people, have the power to dramatically reduce the cost [...] Read more
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – May 5, 2014
In 1994 I was a student in Thomas Piketty’s first theory class at MIT. He was a young hotshot professor and I was a not so young student (in fact about 4 years older than Piketty). I still vividly remember [...] Read more
Getting Money Out of Politics (Event at BuzzFeed)
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2014
I am co-hosting an event on May 14 at the BuzzFeed offices with folks from Represent.us / United Republic and others backing the American Anti-corruption Act. We will be discussing the rationale behind the Act and how the campaign plans [...] Read more
Foursquare: Unbundling Use Cases
Albert Wenger – May 1, 2014
I am excited about Foursquare’s upcoming releases of two apps to unbundle social features from discovery features. You can read a detailed story about it over on the Verge reported by Ben Popper. Ben covers a lot of different angles. [...] Read more
From Industrial to Information Society in Five Disappearances
Albert Wenger – Apr 29, 2014
This will be the topic for my talk at DLD New York this coming Thursday. Here is the rough outline. If anyone has data to contribute I would much appreciate it since I am admittedly long on anecdotes and short [...] Read more
Information Capital (in the 21st Century)
Albert Wenger – Apr 24, 2014
I am still not finished reading “Capital in the 21st Century” but the following introduction to Chapter 11 really got me thinking: One of my main intuitions about the coming changes is that “information” will become more important than industrial, [...] Read more