Riding the Techstorm
An ethicist's failed case against permissionless innovation.
Information Technology
RESOLVED: TECHNOLOGY WILL TAKE ALL OUR JOBS
Ronald Bailey Will Argue Against the Motion at Future Tense on Thursday, June 4
Government War on Online Vice Purchasing is a Continuing War on Citizen Safety
The shutdown of sex-sales site Redbook made life more ignorant and dangerous.
Homeschooling: The New Techie Fad?
Wired notes a growing conflation between cutting-edge tech thinking and escaping the education monopoly.
Job Training Ideas in Obama's Budget: Fewer Occupational Licenses but More Credentials. Huh?
Proposals call for $15 million to eliminate unneeded state occupational licenses, but $500 million to develop new credentials and training program.
A Retiree Digitizes 27 Million Old Newspaper Pages in His Living Room (and Libraries Fight to Catch Up)
A wonderful new web portal for searching the old Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Anything Not Permitted Is Forbidden: Code Camp Edition
Improving people's employment opportunities without giving the state a cut. What were you thinking?
The Year Government Lost Its Grip on Information
While the Internet can be regulated, and information can be controlled, it can only be done on an increasingly small margin, and at an increasingly high cost.
Wired's Louis Rossetto on the Death of the Mega-State and the Digital Revolution
"The priests, the pundits, the politicians and the generals" who create positive change.
Chief of Government Health Care IT Steps Down
Officials won't say if it has anything to do with Obamacare rollout
NSA Snooping Could Cost Tech Companies Billions
$35 billion in lost contracts from hesitant customers over next three years
Why India Is on the Side of Restrictionist Republicans on Immigration Reform
U.S. high-tech companies are using the H-1B program to cripple their Indian competitors
Inventor of Computer Mouse Dead at 88
Douglas C. Engelbart visualized computer networking and communication concepts all the way back in the 1950s
China Now Has World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
Can perform more than 30 quadrillion calculations per second
Most Transparent Administration in History Has Secret E-mail Addresses
If you've got a million dollars, maybe they'll tell you about them
Amateur Beats Gov't at Digitizing Newspapers: Tom Tryniski's Weird, Wonderful Website
A retiree with a scanner builds one of the world's largest historic newspaper sites while tax-funded projects stall.
Reddit Co-Founder, Open Info Activist Bullied by DOJ Commits Suicide
Faced federal charges for downloading academic journal records at MIT
Disney Introducing Encoded Bracelets for Park Visitors
Will allow for easy purchases and reservations, and also to track consumer data
Illicit Communications Networks Connect Criminals Worldwide
Clever, if not nice, use of technology
What 3-D Printing Means for Gun Rights
Cutting-edge technology meets the right to keep and bear arms.
