Collective vs. Creative: The Yin and Yang of Innovation
Later this week the FCC will accept the first round of comments in its “Open Internet” rule making, commonly known as Net Neutrality. Never mind that the Internet is already open and it was never...
View ArticleWashington liabilities vs. Internet assets
See our RealClearMarkets commentary contrasting mounting Washington liabilities versus America’s key strategic assets. We also outline a new Internet paradigm for cloud-based video and software...
View ArticleA Victory for the Free Web
After yesterday’s federal court ruling against the FCC’s overreaching net neutrality regulations, which we have dedicated considerable time and effort combatting for the last seven years, Holman...
View ArticleChina won’t repeat protectionist past in digital realm
See our new CircleID commentary on the China-Google dustup and its implications for an open Internet: China is nowhere near closing for business as it did five centuries ago. One doubts, however, that...
View ArticleWorld Broadband Comparisons, an update
New numbers from Cisco allow us to update our previous comparison of actual Internet usage around the world. We think this is a far more useful metric than the usual “broadband connections per 100...
View ArticleTyler Cowen’s Techno Slump
Have we utterly deluded ourselves? Are we in a technological Dark Age? Here is my analysis in Forbes of Tyler Cowen’s new e-book essay The Great Stagnation, which argues we’ve eaten all the low-hanging...
View ArticleWhat Mobile, Video, Big Data, and Cloud mean for network traffic
See our new report “Into the Exacloud” . . . including analysis of: > Why cloud computing requires a major expansion of wireless spectrum and investment > An exaflood update: what Mobile, Video,...
View ArticleU.S. Internet Growth – Another Way to Visualize
We’ve published a lot of linear and log-scale line charts of Internet traffic growth. Here’s just another way to visualize what’s been happening since 1990. The first image shows 1990-2004. Continue...
View ArticleMemos to the Future: 2042
What would “the New Normal” of a mere 1% per capita GDP growth mean for the American economy over the next few decades? What if it’s even worse, as many are now predicting? Is there anything we can...
View ArticleIgnorance, the Ultimate Asset
See our new article “Ignorance, the Ultimate Asset” at The American, the online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute.
View ArticleIs U.S. broadband healthy or not?
This question is central to the efforts to change the way we regulate the Internet. In a short new paper from the American Enterprise Institute, we look at a simple way to gauge whether the U.S. has in...
View ArticleMoore’s Law: A 50th Anniversary Assessment
See our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law — “Moore’s Law Exceeded Moore’s Expectations.” And for a longer treatment, see our 19-page paper — “Moore’s Law: A 50th Anniversary...
View ArticleRemember Peak Oil?
During the “energy crisis” of 2006, we wrote the following Wall Street Journal commentary, hoping to calm fears of “peak oil” and other nonsense that often accompanies big price swings. We said oil...
View ArticleAre the pessimists right about America’s slow-growth future?
In his big new book on the history and future of innovation, Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon argues that information technology is a spent force. Computers and networks just aren’t as...
View ArticleWhat’s behind the startling decline in publicly traded U.S. firms?
An underreported story of the last two decades is the sharp decline in the number of publicly traded U.S. firms. In 1996, U.S. stock markets boasted 7,322 listed firms. By 2015, however, that number...
View ArticleBusting out of the 1.9% economy
The Congressional Budget Office yesterday published its annual 10-year economic outlook. It says, essentially, the economy will continue expanding for the coming decade at the tepid pace of the last...
View ArticleThe Coming Productivity Boom: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information
We’re excited to share this new research, conducted with Michael Mandel, and commissioned by the Technology CEO Council. Here’s the Executive Summary: Executive Summary The Information Age is not over....
View ArticleRobots Will Save the Economy
See our commentary, with Michael Mandel, in The Wall Street Journal – Robots Will Save the Economy.
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