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Evolution of Technology

  • Cloudflare on the Edge

    Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.

  • Clubhouse’s Inevitability

    Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.

  • Mistakes, Memes, and Foreign Ground; Coronavirus Context; The New York Times and the China Model

    Considering a world of memes is uncomfortable, and perhaps explains why journalists want a world of information control. The problem is that we will never be better at this than China.

  • Publishing is Back to the Future

    Journalism cannot afford to be divorced from business realities; that applies to Australia, the New York Times, and even Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History

    The actions taken by Big Tech have a resonance that goes beyond the context of domestic U.S. politics. Even if they were right, they will still push the world to Internet 3.0.

  • New Defaults

    The pandemic and vaccine rollout have highlighted where the West has lost its way; we need new defaults about information, change, and speed.

  • Social Networking 2.0

    Facebook and Twitter represent the v1 of Social Networking; it’s a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital, and a lot more promising.

  • Playing on Hard Mode

    Airbnb and DoorDash both created new markets where ones did not previously exist; they are startups played on “hard” mode.

  • Apple’s Shifting Differentiation

    Apple is about the integration of hardware and software, but the balance between the two has shifted over time.

  • Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust

    What matters about the Congressional report on tech and antitrust is that it exists, not the specific details.