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While doing the research for a future talk, I came across an obscure but impressively prophetic report entitled Accessibility and Integrity...

The basic aspiration of the LOCKSS Program when we started a quarter century ago was to enable libraries to continue their historical mis...

Source I have written fairly often about the problems of preserving video games , most recently last year in in Video Game History . It was...

Arguably, video games have become the most important entertainment medium. 2022 US video game revenue topped $85B , compared with global m...

I was asked to talk about cryptocurrencies to the 49 th Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop . I decided that my talk would take the form of a ...

I spent two decades working on the problem of preserving digital documents, especially those published on the Web, in the LOCKSS Program . S...

I was an early employee at three VC-funded startups from the 80s and 90s. All of them IPO-ed and two (Sun Microsystems and Nvidia) made it i...

The architectural debate between Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Conputers (RISC) really took off in t...

Atlantic Council Report On Software Supply Chains was already rather long when I got to the last of the report's recommendations that I...

In The Law of Informational Capitalism , Prof. Amy Kapczynski of the Yale Law School reviews two books, Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveil...

In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee...

In Supreme Court rules Georgia can’t put the law behind a paywall Timothy B. Lee writes: A narrowly divided US Supreme Court on Monday up...

On March 13 th , an Elsevier press release entitled Elsevier gives full access to its content on its COVID-19 Information Center for PubMed ...

Last year, in Falling Research Productivity , I commented on Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? by Nicholas Bloom et al . Now, The Economist...

It has become obvious that self-regulated social media are a threat to pretty much every country's national security. This is intended t...

I've written before about the valuable work of the Software Preservation Network (SPN). Now they have released their EaaSI Sandbox , in...

For many years now it has been obvious that humans can no longer effectively process the enormous volume of academic publishing. The entire ...

The topic of scholarly communication has received short shrift here for the last few years. There has been too much to say about other topic...

Kim Stanley Robinson is a remarkable author. In 1990 he concluded his Wild Shore triptych of novels describing alternate futures for Calif...

Last year's series of posts and PNC keynote entitled The Amnesiac Civilization were about the threats to our cultural heritage from i...