Monday, May 31, 2010

Memphis mortgages, complexity attacks and long term consequences

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Times are bad in the subprime mortgage neighborhoods of Memphis , home to recession wracked FedEx ... The black men and women interview...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

From the archives - Sanford Weill before and after the crash

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Before the Great Recession, times were good for some. No, not like Clinton's glory days of 1995 or so -- those times were good for most ...
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Post-industrial employment: adjusting to a new world

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Six years ago I wrote a review of Robert Reich's book Reason . Reason was a reaction to the GOP's loony rule, but Reich was also ver...
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Obama and the Gulf: Why I remain grateful - and puzzled

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We're a long way from knowing what went wrong in the Gulf. It does appear, however, that we don't have the technology to cost-effect...
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Good news on social security: Obesity

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My family spent the afternoon at the neighborhood pool on a hot new-climate spring day. From the looks of things, we'd all do well in a ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Causes of the Great Recession: The Congressional Report

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Via Economix , the Congressional Research Service report on proposed causes of the "financial crisis"  (pdf). They have a long lis...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Apple vs. Google: I'm caught in the crossfire

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John Gruber is a fan of the Apple-Google war ... Daring Fireball: Post-I/O Thoughts ... It’s exciting, vicious, fun to watch, and ultimatel...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Google TV, Flash, iPhone and Curated Computing - it's all about the DRM

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Imagine that Drexler's engines of creation were real. Imagine we all had devices that could make diamonds, phones, cars and the like o...
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Civilization is stronger than we think: Structural deficits and complex adaptive systems

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The more humans you know, the harder it is to imagine that civilization can endure. Billions of consumers. Environmental collapse. Climate c...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Unanticipated cloud app problems: The child

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I've written about several issues with cloud apps. Here's a novel one. For good reasons, I want my son to have access to email and c...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The hungry city

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Paraphrased from In Our Time, The City - a history : "Pre-modern cities had death rates that were vastly greater than birth rates."
Monday, May 17, 2010

Organlegging Neuromancer style – China’s liver trade

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Organlegging was Larry Niven’s 1970s term for trafficking in human organs . Gibson’s fiction, including the fabulous ( 1984!! ) Neuromancer ...

Science fiction and ocean acidification

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Zimmer tells us we'll be able to recognize the human era by the sedimentary evidence of ocean acidification and mass extinction . Sounds...

Krugman discovers humans are not rational

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Paul Krugman is a fan of behavioral economics. He’s also fabulously well read, he must have read some anthropology, history, and political s...

Jean-Louis Gassée on Cloud 2.0 – post of the month

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Jean-Louis Gassée   blogs on Monday Note . He’s been doing it since Feb 4, 2008 . Gassée has done many things, but he’s best known for ha...