Google just launched a nifty little ngram-visualizer. A search on words privacy, liberty, security gives you pause: Thoughts?
Month: December 2010
Organizing politically for the value of new technologies
One of the fundamental problems in ICT-policy is actually an intra-governmental problem. While everyone agrees on the importance of new technologies, it seems equally obvious that our way of measuring the information economy, well, sucks. That means that any serious ICT-policy works needs to start out with an internal discussion in government about what this… Continue reading Organizing politically for the value of new technologies
Solving problems? You should be collecting them.
Problems are beautiful, and they are among the most interesting things you can come across. You should consider each problem you are faced with as if it was a rare and thoughtful gift (failures are like this too, as Karl Jaspers noted: failures are small ciphers sent to you from God). Often we are annoyed… Continue reading Solving problems? You should be collecting them.