Technology

This article, published by Fibresystems.org, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: And before that today, George Gilder will be giving a the closing keynote presentation at the 2008 Executive Forum, which is organized by the Optical Society of America (OSA) in conjunction with media house Pennwell. The rest of the article can be found here.

Two decades ago, Sun Microsystems prophesied: “The network is the computer.” Today, BitTorrent video and 3D graphics flood the Internet, Apple iPhones tap the Net’s computing power, and PC-king Microsoft pursues Net-centric Yahoo. Sun’s mantra has become reality. But as the Internet booms and moves to the center of the global economic sphere, it draws proportional attention from politicians and Read More ›

This article, published by The New York Times, quotes Discovery Institute Board Member Tom Alberg: Tom A. Alberg, a partner at the Madrona Venture Group, one of Seattle’s leading venture capital firms and an early investor in Amazon, says the city is now home to a growing community of technology innovators who are willing to take risks The rest of Read More ›

[Listen to Podcast] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY An upsurge of technological change and a rising tide of new forms of data are working a deep transformation of the Internet’s capabilities and uses. In this third phase of Net evolution, network architectures and commercial business plans reflect the dominance of rich video and media traffic. From YouTube, IPTV, and high-definition images, to “cloud Read More ›

Washington, D.C. –— New technologies are dramatically transforming the Internet and could boost IP traffic in the United States more than 50-fold within the next decade, according to “Estimating the Exaflood: The Impact of Video and Rich Media on the Internet,” a report released today by the Discovery Institute. “Innovations like YouTube, IPTV, high-definition video and mobile phone cameras are Read More ›

Last-mile bandwidth must expand 10-100 times to meet capacity challenges posed by IPTV and online video, Discovery Institute fellows said in their report Estimating the Exaflood. Authors George Gilder and Bret Swanson said that traffic on the Internet in the U.S. will continue to grow rapidly through 2015, when the total number of bytes moved across the network will be Read More ›

This article, published by the Hollywood Reporter, mentions Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: The term, coined by Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute, refers to the massive tonnage of data that flows through the Internet. Exaflood is derived from the exabyte, which is the equivalent of 1.074 billion gigabytes. The rest of the article can be found here.