A recent June 9th press release issued by Sense Networks highlights the increasing social focus on digitizing our physical spaces. Sense Networks patent-pending technology is billed as a “software platform that indexes the real world using mobile location data.”

The depth of information that Sense Networks is able to acquire […]

In the latest issue of Edge the well-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questions the popular assertion that “China will be the next scientific and economic power.” What prompted Pinker to question that assertion seems to be the recent rejection by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to […]

Using GPS, internet, a mobile device and mini-projector street vendors can download and display motion advertising on urban surfaces based on their current location. Ads can contain QR-Codes (make your own) which could require the ad vendor to get passerbys to scan the code with […]

If one assumes the Universe is indeed composed of information and that indeed the Universe is processing that information through physical means then the major forces as defined by the science of Physics can be explained by what is expressed as Information Technology. Specifically society has come to create technologies that address matter and energy as discreet finite units of […]

Why do we in the U.S. on one hand grant patents and on the other pursue Anti-trust litigation? Is there not a very basic conflict of interest here?

How could we provide the legal magic beans that will grow only to attempt to destroy the giant they may lead to? […]

I have been living in Shanghai for about 3 months now and have experienced first hand how frustrating a censored internet experience can be. The result of this frustration has grown to become a malady I call information atrophy.

For my information atrophy, I take regular doses of proxies and plug-ins however the side-effects of these generally include irritable […]