Why decentralization matters

2018-02-18

The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…

Crypto token roundup

2017-06-06

Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 2…

Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design

2017-05-27

It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…

How Aristotle Created the Computer

2017-02-20

The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Originally published by The Atlantic…

Gadgets and Computers

2017-01-16

From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…

As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…

2016-09-25

As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally hampered by the fact that there was no…