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^{George Gilder
September 1, 2003
Technology}

Making Broadband Bloom

_{George Gilder
September 1, 2003
Technology}

Content, some say, is king. Well, I am discontent. At the moment, struggling with RealPlayer and RealOne, I conclude that streaming video does not work. What passes for broadband in the United States — 200 to 800 kilobits per second — simply cannot handle video. The paucity of video education and entertainment on the Net thwarts the “life after television” Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
August 20, 2003
Technology}

Free the Photon! Emancipate the Electron!

_{John Wohlstetter
August 20, 2003
Technology}

^{John Wohlstetter
July 28, 2003
Technology}

Broadband Lite Blossoms:

_{John Wohlstetter
July 28, 2003
Technology}

Once upon a time broadband meant a cornucopia of services delivered via telecommunications, from frivolities like online video games to vital services like telemedicine, which enables prevention, and remote diagnosis, of disease. Computer science polymath David Gelernter looked towards “the day software puts the universe in a shoebox”— “mirror worlds” in which multi-dimensional virtual space becomes available over vast networks to all users. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
July 1, 2003
Technology}

Discovery Senior Fellow on Boston NPR Show

_{Discovery Institute
July 1, 2003
Technology}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Bret Swanson will be a guest on the Boston NPR program “On Point” Wednesday, July 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern (4 to 5 p.m. Pacific). Swanson had an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal today on a new technology revival set for America, owing to the growth of subscribers for broadband networks Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
June 27, 2003
Technology}

Networks for Nothing, Inc.

_{John Wohlstetter
June 27, 2003
Technology}

Faced with the largest financial fraud in history, what should the feds do? Like Godzilla risen anew from the depths, WorldCom – soon be to rechristened MCI – is poised to emerge from bankruptcy blessed by the federal government. Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
April 25, 2003
Technology}

Cyber-Safe Meets Fail-Safe

_{John Wohlstetter
April 25, 2003
Technology}

This February the Bush Administration released The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, a long-awaited document spelling out the nation’s cyber-security strategy, a crucial element falling into the homeland security portfolio. Heightening cyber-fears is the military’s concern about battlefield e-mails sent home, which travel through the public networks at the end of their cyber-journey; the military has its own Secret Internet Protocol Network for war messages Read More ›

^{Bret Swanson
April 4, 2003
Technology}

Google: Our Savior?

_{Bret Swanson
April 4, 2003
Technology}

Internet search firm Google can do no wrong. It is Amazon, eBay, Reuters, and Britannica all in one. It has low-end disruptive technology, a popular primary-color brand, an advertising model that works, and profits — nine quarters in a row. It entered a cluttered space late and still cleaned up. It even writes better modern poetry than humans. For these Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
March 13, 2003
Technology}

The 3-Wire World

_{John Wohlstetter
March 13, 2003
Technology}

Washington has often bedeviled captains of industry, as the telecom industry learned in its infancy. Trans-Atlantic cable entrepreneur Cyrus Field’s brother Henry said of the time he and his brother spent lobbying Congress to match the British investment share (4 percent) in the first cable: “Those few weeks in Washington were worse than being among the icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland. The Atlantic Cable has many a kink since, but never did it seem to be entangled in such a hopeless twist as when it got among the politicians.” Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
March 7, 2003
Technology}

Martin and Lewis at the FCC

_{John Wohlstetter
March 7, 2003
Technology}

The Federal Communications Commission’s February 20 ruling on telecom competition policy is truly beyond satire. Writing into the night like a high school student cobbling together a term paper just before semester’s end, cutting and pasting a 400-page monstrosity, forming a majority by clandestine negotiations behind the chairman’s back, is crazy enough. But then add the two Democratic commissioners, gifts Read More ›

^{George Gilder
February 19, 2003
Technology}

Broadband’s Narrow Minds

_{George Gilder
February 19, 2003
Technology}

At the Federal Communications Commission these days, Commissioner Michael Powell and his one-time protege Kevin Martin have introduced a new slogan: “What, me worry?” While the communications sector suffers though a crisis of stifling overregulation, the commission seems ready to accept an outbreak of litigious new rules at the state and local levels. As the FCC prepares to meet again Read More ›