Category: Politics

  • Creating a British Silicon Valley

    I wrote a piece on David Cameron’s proposed East London tech city for Imperica: There is a simple difference between the business cultures in London and San Francisco. The former provides the infrastructure to create enterprise from technical innovations; the latter provides the infrastructure for technical innovators to create enterprise, of course for this is […]

  • I remember

    I’m an American citizen, and I approve this message: Personally, I think there’s only one way to go, but make up your own mind. America, please get out there, read about the candidates, look past the propaganda and the smear campaigns, and make an informed vote today. Project VoteSmart looks like a good place to […]

  • The future we deserve

    Opening the floodgates: […] It would be easy to argue that this change is restricted to post-scarcity items: products that can be encapsulated digitally and copied an infinite number of times. However, this is not the case. In the summer of 2010, the New York State legislature – heavily sponsored by the hotel industry – […]

  • Facebook location vs the ACLU

    A lot has been said about Facebook’s new location feature, which is available via its iPhone client or HTML5 mobile web app. It’s a shrewd move, to be sure, and by now it’s clear that the company has ambitions to be the next decade’s tech behemoth. While Microsoft has a grip over stand-alone computing, Apple […]