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Reset The Net – With Care
Albert Wenger – Jun 5, 2014
Today a broad campaign called Reset The Net has launched with the tagline “Don’t ask for Your privacy. Take it back.” Today also marks the one year anniversary of the Edward Snowden leaks that showed the extent of the NSA [...] Read more
The End of Categories
Albert Wenger – Jun 4, 2014
We like to put things in categories: public versus private company; for profit versus charity; professional versus amateur; creator versus consumer; journalist versus blogger; teacher versus student; and so much more. Of course not all categorizations are binary. In academia, [...] Read more
Technology, Time Preference and the Return on Capital (Individuals)
Albert Wenger – Jun 2, 2014
In my post on Computers and the Return on Capital I made the point that cheaper and more ubiquitous flows of information will drive the risk free return on capital towards the time preference (assuming that capital can also flow [...] Read more