The stupid side of the smart grid
The smart grid might open up new ways for hackers to plague us. […]
Category: readings
Free to be, Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley gives Chris Anderson’s Freeconomics book a tentative thumbs up. Gurley, a […]
The journalist as Beaux-Arts craftsman
“It is fear I am most afraid of,” Montaigne wrote. He concerned himself […]
Reading “Fred”
I picked up a book at church I’d skipped multiple times in the […]
A momentarily revolutionary technology
Twitter was the flare, statistical analysis the spotlight on problems in the Iranian […]
Trickle-up energy innovation
The developing world may save us from ourselves, according to this post on […]
Paradise Lost, Book II
Book II is not the longest in Paradise Lost (Books ix and x […]
The Help Wanted Problem
This Business Week story on why 3 million job openings mean bad news […]
“Wired to Care,” or not
Wired to Care will make some readers crazy with love. Others, though, will […]
Is the middle class bad for democracy?
The middle class makes democracies work, in conventional thinking. Middle class citizens use […]