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Evolution of Technology

  • Metaverses

    The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia

  • Pandemic Progress

    Marc Andreessen has changed his tone over the past year; there is a cynical interpretation, but I think the shift is justified.

  • AWS CloudFront Functions, AWS’s Data Residency Whitepaper, Muddles and Mirages

    AWS’s responses to Cloudflare are still predicated on an assumption of centralizaion; the truth is in the middle, and the status quo is powerful.

  • 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.