Category Archives: Internet

Money, the Metaverse and David Birch (Making Data Better EP15)

George and I had a virtual blast recently on our podcast with David Birch. As...

It takes a Virtual Village

In “We are hopelessly hooked” (New York Review of Books, February 25), political historian Jacob...

Mobility and the experience of identity

We all know that digital transformation is imminent, but getting there is far from easy....

Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong

Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong. No new technology since the Internet...

A letter on Free Speech and the Right to be Forgotten

An unpublished letter to New Yorker magazine, August 2015. Kelefa Sanneh (“The Hell You Say”,...

On “Trust Frameworks”

The Australian government’s new Digital Transformation Office (DTO) is a welcome initiative, and builds on...

Digital Disruption – Melbourne

Ray Wang tells us now that writing a book and launching a company are incredibly...

The Google Advisory Council

In May 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that under European law, people...

Free search.

Search engines are wondrous things. I myself use Google search umpteen times a day. I...

Obama’s Cybersecurity Summit

The White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was hosted at Stanford University on...