Beyond circuit-switched thinking
Friday, October 31st, 2003Telepocalypse: "The abandonment of the circuit-switched world for all communication that isn't both real-time and two-way is seriously overdue."
Archive for October, 2003
Telepocalypse: "The abandonment of the circuit-switched world for all communication that isn't both real-time and two-way is seriously overdue."
From networks to devices
Thursday, October 30th, 2003According to a Morgan Stanley report, the mobile phone infrastructure market is going to plunge. Left unsaid is the other side of the equation. As the locus of value moves away from the core network infrastructure, it moves into the devices at the edge.
Michael Powell in the eye of the beholder
Wednesday, October 29th, 2003Arnold Kling thinks FCC Chairman Michael Powell is misunderstood, and smarter than people give him credit for. I agree. Of course Arnold, a conservative economist, cheers Powell for following the neoclassical economic orthodoxy of Friedrich Hayek, while I see him carrying on the legacy of Al Gore.
A biiiiiiiiiig number
Wednesday, October 29th, 2003Infoworld: "The amount of new information stored on various media such as hard drives has doubled in the past three years, to five exabytes of new information produced in 2002, according to a study released Tuesday by the University of California, Berkeley." (via Ross Mayfield)
Lessons from Dartmouth
Sunday, October 26th, 2003Naval Ravikant at Ventureblog has a good analysis of what Dartmouth is learning from its extensive deployemnt of WiFi and VOIP.
Billy Tauzin's MPAA
Sunday, October 26th, 2003The New York Post is reporting that Congressman Billy Tauzin will take over from Jack Valenti as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. I think this is good news for defenders of openness and competition in the digital economy. First, Tauzin will leave his powerful position as chair of the House Commerce Committee, ...
Beyond the phone network as we know it
Sunday, October 26th, 2003Technopocalypse: "The obsolescence of the PSTN will be caused not by cheap traditional voice run over the Internet, but by services the PSTN cannot ever deliver."
Master of the Universe?
Saturday, October 25th, 2003First, Wired names Clay Shirky "The Tech Node," and now this.
The Meat Market
Friday, October 24th, 2003I'm in Washington DC, at the annual American Association of Law Schools Faculty Recruitment Conference (aka "The Meat Market") interviewing for jobs as a law professor. Wish me luck!