Technology & Democracy Project
Just two or three generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written to explain how freedom is lost to totalitarianism and the intolerance that accompanies it. “Big Brother,” a term still casually used to describe an all-knowing governing authority, comes right out of 1984. In the society that Orwell describes, everyone was reminded that Read More ›
My Discovery Institute colleague George Gilder and I issued the following statement in support of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s vision for smart Internet regulation: Chairman Ajit Pai of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing to return the classification of broadband service from a Title II telecommunications service to a Title I information service, noting that capital expenditures by the the Read More ›
The AT&T-Time Warner merger is needed to help fund the deployment of 5G technologies, which will be both extremely costly and harder to achieve as a result of the primary focus of regulators in recent years. A vertical merger between AT&T and Time Warner (not Time Warner Cable) shouldn’t be a big deal since for the most part neither firm Read More ›
The Federal Communications Commission realizes that different rules for different competing firms “could have [anti]competitive ripple effects,” yet the agency’s proposals frequently include different rules for different competitors anyway. In the case of privacy protection for the customers of broadband service providers, the FCC is proposing to impose onerous restrictions on broadband providers’ use of Web browsing and app usage Read More ›
At Boom Bust, Discovery Institute George Gilder, author of the new book The Scandal of Money, discusses his ideas for fixing the US economy. Read More ›
At Boom Bust, Discovery Institute George Gilder, author of the new book The Scandal of Money, discusses his ideas for fixing the US economy. Read More ›
At Boom Bust, Discovery Institute George Gilder, author of the new book The Scandal of Money, discusses his ideas for fixing the US economy. Read More ›
Easier said than done is the task of drafting regulations that require pay-TV providers to provide free apps for downloading pay-TV to any device and for providing access to programming created by independent and diverse voices. Ask Chairman Tom Wheeler of the Federal Communications Commission. His first proposal was torn to shreds. He refuses to even release the full text Read More ›
From computers to airplanes to life-giving medicines, the technological marvels of our world were made possible by the human use of fire. But the use of fire itself was made possible by an array of features built into the human body and the planet. In Fire-Maker, biologist Michael Denton explores the special features of nature that equipped humans to to harness the powers of fire Read More ›