Data Wants to be Free (as in Freedom)

Tonight I was at the Sensored Meetup #10: Data! APIs! Standards!. Besides some great thought provoking talks, there was some great discussions afterward that got me thinking more clearly about some stuff that has been bubbling in my brain. Scott McNealy Was Right - Privacy: ‘Get Over It’ I really thought McNealy was wrong when he said way back [...] [...]

Self-Driving Cars: Biggest Societal Change Since… Cars

New Scientist is having a contest with the prize being a trip of a lifetime to the Arctic Circle and the bottom of the North Sea. I discovered after I wrote my entry that they only wanted less than 100 words. So here is what I originally wrote before I had to truncate it to something [...] [...]

Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California’s Sonic.net WHY NOWHERE ELSE? Hint: Oligopoly

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationThey offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America. For only $69.95/month (100MBps for $39.95, both include phone service. … Wondering “why can’t somebody else do this?” You’re asking the right question. But you may not like the answer.Via [...] [...]

Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal – Technology Review

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureA study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half.Via www.technologyreview.com [...]