On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
J.B. White, my former professor, has written a powerful essay (pages 98-103) on the evils of reducing the human experience to mere economics. Here is an excerp…
Roy Baumeister in Psychology Today: "Economists think that if people were true to financial logic, they would act more like monkeys..." "Keith C…
The CIS team tied for third place against Berkeley's Law and Technology Group at EFF's 18th Birthday Celebration/Pub Trivia night.…
David Brooks in today's New York Times: "Studies designed to link specific genes to behavior have failed to find anything larger than very small associ…
It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.” (What’s “wired”? Worrying about privacy on Goog…
With increased interest in global warming, green building and ecologically friendly behaviors, I initially observed that there was fairly little chatter concern…
In a previous post, the Traditions of Knowledge I referred to the appropriation of traditional knowledge by means of industrial revolution intellectual property…
Conventional intellectual property laws claim to confer rights only on knowledge that is individually authored, reduced to material form and 'original'…
Building on the tremendous success they have achieved with the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, the Center for Social Media…
Wired's Threat Level is reporting that a court (the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) has ordered Google "to turn over every r…
I have posted Hearsay Culture's schedule for the remainder of the summer quarter, as well as the list of guests for the fall quarter. As you'll see, it…
David Frum in the NYT Book Review: "You do not need to be a partisan of a political movement to write its history. But you do need enough imaginative sympa…