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INCENDIARY: The Willingham Case
In 1991, Cameron Todd Willingham’s three daughters died in a Corsicana, Texas house fire. Tried and convicted for their arson murders, Willingham spent twelve y…
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plyw…
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Casablanca Mon Amour
Casablanca Mon Amour is a modern road movie that encapsulates the more complex and fractured nature of living in a world where TV and wars compete for headlines…
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First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age
Next Friday, February 10, the Stanford Technology Law Review is holding its annual symposium, and this year's topic is an important one: First Amendment Cha…
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Fire in the Blood
An intricate tale of “monopoly, medicine and mass murder”, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is the story of how Western governments acting on behalf of pharmaceutical companie…
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Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think
The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal…
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Arizona and Oklahoma Legislators Introduce Autonomous Driving Bills
And now both Arizona (with the introduction of HB 2679) and skyoneering Oklahoma (with the introduction of HB 3007).…
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The SOPA-PIPA Saga - Freedom of Speech vs. Net Neutrality
Many - like me - watched with great interest the defeat of SOPA and PIPA last week. The unpopular bills were defeated due in no small part to a well-coordinated…
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Hawaii Legislators Introduce Autonomous Driving Bill
Six state representatives in Hawaii have introduced a bill (HB 2238) that would direct that state's "director of transportation, in consultation with t…
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Who Will Regulate Robots?
As robots leave the factory and battlefield and enter our homes, hospitals, and skies, it is not clear who will come to regulate them. But we can begin to spot…
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The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing
Finnish organization Asymco publishes a series of graphics trending 35 years of computing technology. These are great graphics, identifying the disruptive disp…
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SOPA
The Public Policy Council of the ACM publishes its position on the SOPA and PIPA acts... taking a neutral stance explaining the issues from their technological…