http://bit.ly/1JeHfxL Who’s the bigger snoop–government or Google?  On my panel at the Milken Global Forum, ACLU’s President, an Intel privacy veep, an anti-hacker and a computer scientist debate that question and hold forth on what may already be a moribund idea: the notion that anything we do or say can remain private in a digital […]

For decades data storage has been a control freak’s dream: Data are “structured” and consistent, dutifully tucked away in disk-based systems that are prodigious in capacity but cantankerous and inflexible, unable to expand or shrink as data flows dictate. Now comes a data deluge that will make control freaks… freak. A new wave of “unstructured” […]

In the annals of innovation, inspiration can emerge from frustration.  For David Barrett, it came a few years ago after the “scarring experience” of a clash with vexing, outdated back-office software. He had just joined Akami after it acquired a startup he had formed with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, and Barrett had to use an […]

Nicholas Negroponte became famous as a futurist with his book “Being Digital,” published in 1995. A few years later, a cub reporter at The Wall Street Journal asked him what would be next for the Net. “Things,” Negroponte answered. “Things that think want to link.” Soon, he foretold, the Internet would link everything from household […]

Silicon Valley doesn’t really matter anymore.  A high-tech CEO posed that provocation to me recently, though he had founded his company in Europe and had just relocated it to the valley that made innovation famous. It was a move made mainly for appearances, the CEO maintained, for these days innovation happens everywhere, far beyond the […]

  If the Republican gains in the 2010 midterm elections were a shellacking as President Obama so aptly labeled it, what term best applies to the Republican surge in the midterm election we just had? A whuppin’? But our President could save his presidency and clinch his legacy—and help millions of unemployed Americans—by doing something […]

By Dennis Kneale It’s about time, dammit! Thirteen years after Islamic terrorists took down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and killed 2,753 people who were inside them, the first tenants are moving into the new 102-story Freedom Tower, built on the same site. So herewith a few thoughts on what that really […]

Hello all, here’s a link to my three-hour gig on The Blaze Radio Network yesterday: http://bit.ly/1rmu3Rm Among the topics and guests: —Why did 68% of House Republicans–the guys sometimes deemed as racist for opposing President Obama’s policies–support his request for authorization to arm rebels in Syria, compared with  only 57% of Democrats? —“No boots on […]