Digital Destruction
I was talking with a woman the other day whose husband is losing her job because “films don’t use film anymore”. Yes, I responded, another case of digital destruction. She was intrigued with the term so we discussed it a bit more. I take no credit in coming up with name but the conversation did [...]
Former Special Assistant to President Obama Talks about Telecom Policy at NYU
Susan Crawford, a former Special Assistant to President Obama for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy gave a lecture today about the state of telecommunications policy in the United States. Currently she is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. As [...]
How “STAR WARS” and the Japanese Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Led to the Internet, Part II
This is the second part of my argument about how the Internet changed from a military network to a widescale global network of interconnected networks. It is abstracted from my manuscript on How IT Came to Rule the World and continues the examination of statecraft and its role on the development and impact of computerization [...]
Towards a Bachelor of Science in Global E-commerce
A few years ago I was asked to develop a proposal for a BS in Global E-Commerce that I had suggested. It has yet to be implemented like the BS in Digital Communications and Media I created for NYU in 2002 but I always thought it had potential. Preamble The “Bachelor of Science in Global [...]
Dominant and Emerging Models of Global E-Commerce
The term “e-commerce” provokes connotations of computer users “surfing” the web and using their credit cards to make online purchases. While this has been the popular conception and will continue to drive strong e-commerce sales for the retail sector, other technologies and business models will also be important. E-commerce is as dynamic as the technologies [...]
Digital Television and the Challenges for International Public Policy
Found this paper recently that I gave to the Pacific Telecommunications Council in 1997. In my conclusion I state that “IPTV may fall on the scrapheap of history, like ISDN, but it’s apparent both the telco and the television industry will continue to go through substantive changes. Two apparent changes are its increasing globalization and [...]
How “STAR WARS” and the Japanese Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Led to the Internet
This is abstracted from my manuscript on How IT Came to Rule the World and continues the examination of statecraft and its role on the development and impact of computerization and netcentric power. The Internet was born out of two American paranoias: fear of Communist aggression and the fear of losing the US lead in [...]
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