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Ludwig Siegele's latest Special report for The Economist is entitled A deluge of data is giving rise to a new economy . He provides an ...

The Internet Archive has been working on a Mellon-funded grant aimed at collecting, preserving and providing persistent access to as much o...

In 2018's Cryptocurrencies Have Limits I discussed Eric Budish's The Economic Limits Of Bitcoin And The Blockchain , an important a...

Google UI Timeline Two weeks ago a firestorm erupted over a seemingly insignificant change to the UI of Google's search engine . It ...

Blogging is slow right now because my physical therapist wants me standing up and moving around at least every 15 minutes. Long-form bloggin...

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

The surveillance economy, and thus the stratospheric valuations of : Facebook and Alphabet (Google’s parent), which rely on advertising fo...