As is traditional, here are Digitopoly's top posts of 2014: 10 Reasons to doubt Tim’s Vermeer The easy target that is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation Tirole and Pasteur The Giant’s Shoulders: Suzanne Scotchmer The ownership of the machines No business built on teenager demand is sustainable Amazon: it’s not the power, it’s the lost …
Top Technology Events of the Year, 2014
It is time again for the best technology events of the year. We have quite a lineup this year, including Sony, Aereo, net neutrality, Home Depot, and a few surprise guest stars. As with prior years, the winner had to do something in the calendar year. The action had to involve information and communications technology. It had to …
Digitised Products: How about just giving up?
In a very interesting talk, music producer, Steve Albini, reviewed the impact of the internet on the music industry’s woes. I can’t do it justice in any summary but he basically said that, for bands, things were not very good prior to the internet. The reason for this is that recording was expensive, distribution was …
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Chunks of online education
Like many this past week I have found myself extremely impressed by Vi Hart and Nicky Case’s “Parable of the Polygons.” It is basically an interactive simulation that introduces students to an old game from Thomas Schelling that demonstrates how small biases individually can aggregate up into much larger biases overall. If you have not …
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