Happy 75th Anniversary, Transistor. You’ve Changed Everything – Including How We Innovate.
December 16 is the 75th anniversary of the transistor, and we are all implicitly celebrating it by being unable to live without it.
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Breaking Up (Companies) is Hard to Do–But It Can Happen
AT&T was broken up in the 80’s. That same year, a giant antitrust suit against IBM was dropped. But both companies broke into parts. The past can instruct the present.
Both Blocking AT&T-Time Warner & Killing Net Neutrality Put Competition at Risk
With its two actions this week, the administration has sacrificed an opportunity to promote innovation and competition in the media industry. The result will be greater consolidation in the hands of a few dominant players.
The Mind-Boggling Challenges of a Private and Secure Net
Digital privacy isn’t simple for anyone–consumers, the companies that hold data, or the government. In this high-profile session at Techonomy Policy in June 2015, leaders from AT&T and Microsoft joined venture capitalist Brad Burnham and...
Towards a Bipartisan Tech Strategy in D.C.
Should America have a bipartisan technology agenda? It certainly seems like a good idea. And Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey argued for one emphatically at the closing session of the Techonomy Policy conference in...
Video Is Eating the World
Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. But the real online glutton may be video. Mark Nagel, the executive director of marketing for AT&T’s Foundry innovation centers, told the crowd at a...
The Intimacy and Authenticity of Online Filmmaking
The idea that the Internet has democratized moviemaking has become one of the most repeated truisms of the digital age. But what, exactly, does the ability of everyone to post video on popular networks like...
Will Movies Move to the Cloud?
The idea of cloud computing these days is, of course, hardly radical. But noted film maker Tiffany Shlain has a notion of what she calls "cloud filmmaking" that is considerably different than what people typically...
Are the Smart Machines Taking Over?
At CES this year, all the talk was about smart machines: smart cars, smart glasses, and, of course, smartphones. But should we be scared of these smart machines? Are they about to become too smart—so...