On “Digital” Liberty
In 1859, a book was published with the title On Liberty. Written by John Stuart Mill, a philosopher of the time, this work focused …
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ACA Security Worries? Trust Us, We’re the Government
You’ve probably heard that President Obama signed up for Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. ObamaCare) health care. Well, sort of. He won’t actually be using …
The End of the Deep Web? Nope.
It was a wild ride last week in the world of the Deep Web, that section of the Internet that requires special tools to …
How the Internet Saved Civilization
I’ve just completed a heavy schedule of talks at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver. All my talks centered on information economics, Web …
The Dark Side of Technology
“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will …
If It Moves, Tax It
A contributing factor in the rise of Internet commerce, a feature that gave it a kick-start, was that you didn’t have to pay sales …
The Drones Are Watching and Waiting
The topic of drones came up on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Advertising guru and pro-drone Donny Deutsch pushed back against a skeptical Joe Scarborough saying, …
One Hundred Years of Intrusions
Imagine a time when the government knew nothing about the money in your bank. It cared nothing about how much you made, where you …
The Uses and Abuses of Social Media
That headline probably seems strange coming from me. I’ve been a champion of social media, and my book A Beautiful Anarchy has a chapter …
Government Will Lose the War on Piracy
It began as a skirmish. Then it was a battle. It became a war. Now it is a bloody conflict that is global in …