Social Change

Friendster

Silicon Valley What’s a friend worth?

Read More »

UK short on science too

Geez, looks like the Brits are having the same concern about their young-sceintist output. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bac could ‘save science’

Read More »

Hot Labor Day

The debate about the benefit vs. problems of offshoring IT continues. A report from a consultant at Deloitte Consulting says offshoring is good because it will free dollars up for R&D and that will result in better jobs overall. And the President apparently made a remark during Labor Day to the effect that offshoring has something to do with not ...

Read More »

Getting up to speed

Wired 11.09: View There seems to be a way to glimpse the future for the US when it adopts broadband by looking at Korea. What strikes me is that broadband is as transformative socially as the slowpoke modem Net has been. When broadband dominates it’s going to be necessary to re-think online communication with constituents.

Read More »