shouting loudly

Our virtual interfaces are more real and recognizable to us than the physical interfaces through which we access them

Professor Lessig is presenting on Institutional Corruption today at the Kennedy School as his first public appearance at Harvard since his return a few months ago.
Professor Lessig likes to introduce three ideas to frame his talk today: 1) influence, 2) independence and 3) responsibility.
Relying on his framework of the four modalities of control [...]

“Moore’s Law,” first articulated in 1965, tells us that we will see a doubling in transistor capacity roughly every two years.  As predictions go, it has proven surprisingly durable, and is a handy conceptual framework for understanding why the internet is evolving so quickly.

Consider: when I was in college a decade ago, I carried around [...]

In the summer of 2005, I attended a 2 week course at the Annenberg Sunnylands’ Institute in Statistics and Methodology (ASIMS, aka “Stats Camp”) in Palm Desert, CA. I took the class on regression and ANOVA, taught (very well) by Wharton stats professor Bob Stine, used the statistical program R.
Out of dissatisfaction with the very high [...]

When too many people own a resource, the resource will be underused. Cooperation will break down, wealth will be lost. That is today’s message of Michael Heller who is at Berkman to talk about his new book, the Gridlock Economy.
Explaining the economic meltdown as an example of a gridlock economy, he suggests that in the [...]