Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Cyber-jurisdiction and the cloud: the smartphone case

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

A short commentary to share (again) some doubts and ideas about what I could define… the separation of the Cyber-church and the State.

AGB2009: chain reaction

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: chain reaction

BACKGROUND

Did you ever notice how small innovations could generate unintended consequences?

ABSTRACT

The Internet is based on a main technology: the “router”, a piece of hardware that takes whatever you send on the Internet, split it in small “packets”, then everything is re-assembled at the final destination.

A recent article showed how one of the pioneers behind the original routers evolved the system. But, unintentionally or not, created a potentially contentious innovation.

Interesting times: Internet, copyright, patents

Monday, October 5th, 2009

We are heading toward interesting times but, as usual, time is the main constraint.

It is a small world- and, moving online, borders become even more irrelevant.

There are some calls to stifle innovation by creating artificial online borders- but it is akin to re-instating border controls within Schengen: a temporary, cumbersome, and annoying palliative.

ReMix09 @ Brussels

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

If you do not know what is about, is a marketing event from Microsoft.

Why did I attend?

This time I was curious to see how convergence and competition are shaping the market.

Read the minutes, make up your mind, and maybe you will have ideas on how to apply some of the concepts from this conference.

The main ideas? Approaches about how people interact with technology.

No, not on software development- on other business and non-business activities.

Equal opportunity elections

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Anybody can be elected.

But, once elected, does anybody receive the information and training to make informed decisions?

Some simple considerations on how to improve the “intellectual immune system” of our elected officials.