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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New Taxes Could Help Manage Big Tech
We have to find ways to level the playing field or this small group of vastly-powerful companies will continue to amass disproportionate wealth even as they wreak social havoc. Without major systemic changes society will...
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.
Google Search Results Are Dumbing Down
Google is not the source it once was, argues analyst Kay. Advertising considerations have undercut its previously less-biased approach to information, as is happening across the net. This is a major cautionary tale about where...
Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Websites
As a go-to search engine and powerful online advertiser, Google has great influence over online consumers. But is this influence illegal? As Google has moved beyond search and search advertising and into online commerce and...
Do Corporations Stoke Innovation or Smother It?
This election season has predictably amplified the argument that taxation and regulation suffocate growth and innovation. But Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston argues an opposing theory: that "corporate socialism" stifles innovation, and that the...