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Will Robots Be 'Generative'?
I don’t know that generativity is a theory, strictly speaking. It’s more of a quality. (Specifically, five qualities.) The attendant theory, as I read it, is…
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Do we need a new generativity principle? – Comments on Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet (II)
Crossposted from Barbara van Schewick's website Netarchitecture.org. [This is the second of two posts on Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Interne…
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Generative End Hosts vs. Generative Networks? – Comments on Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet (I)
Crossposted from Barbara van Schewick's website Netarchitecture.org. I'm participating in an online symposium on Jonathan Zittrain's book The Futur…
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(Im)Perfect Enforcement
Prohibition wasn’t working. President Hoover assembled the Wickersham Commission to investigate why. The Commission concluded that despite an historic enforce…
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Banking on Our Privacy
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: * We browse the web and Google. * We tweet and Twitter. * W…
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Craigslist Adult Ads Under Fire
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Michael Krasny of KQED Forum about the legality of Craigslist's adult…
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Paul Allen: Patent Troll or Patent Savior?
I don’t have a great deal to add to coverage of last week’s big patent story, which concerned the filing of a complaint by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ag…
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State-Owned Banks as a Way to Rebuild the Housing and Real Estate Markets
The financial literacy of America has improved markedly, nearly to college level, as a result of the global recession that started in 2007. What about state-ow…
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Prelude To A Book Review: Barbara van Schewick’s Internet Architecture And Innovation
Professor Barbara van Schewick's book, Internet Architecture and Innovation, is reviewed by Danielle Citron on Concurring Opinions: In the next few weeks,…
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Q&A: How Do You Define ‘Privacy Harm’? « Go back Publication Date:
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is interviewed by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries of the Wall Street Journal Digits Blo…
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A nation of know-nothings
Tim Egan on the NYT website: "It would be nice to dismiss the stupid things that Americans believe as harmless, the price of having such a large, messy dem…
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Widespread Taxing Of Bloggers Could Stifle Internet Speech, Internet Speech Advocates Say
Sarah Hinchcliff Pearson, residential fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, is quoted on potentially requiring bloggers to buy a business license if th…