Geopolitical Risk and the Information Standard
Like the traditional Gold Standard, the Information Standard is no panacea for the management of the global economy. Both impose restrictions on national political structures and policy decision-making.
Music’s Year of the Cloud
I’m heading to Hawaii this January to talk about how cloud computing services and mobile technologies are influencing the music industry at The Pacific Telecommunications Council’s annual conference (PTC ’12: Harnessing Disruption: Global, Mobile, Social, Local). I’ve had some help from my wife who, when she is not marketing green tea for Ito-en NA, is […]
Healthcare IT and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Within weeks of his inauguration, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated ARRA, as part of a $787 billion stimulus package to help revive the ailing economy.[1] The nation was teetering on the edge of economic ruin brought on by the repercussions of a highly leveraged global securitization and credit default scheme that had collapsed with the inflated housing market.
The New Frontier of “Big Data”
The uses of database technology have been going through some dramatic shifts due to new storage, processing, representation, and transmission capabilities. Innovations have made data continuously cheaper to store, quicker to organize, easier to visualize and faster to transmit. As a result, various private and public sectors organizations are developing new data-driven analytic strategies to […]
Visiting the Future of the Panama Canal
A relevant question for 2022 is whether shipping ports have prepared sufficiently for increased container traffic? Have ports such as Baltimore, Charleston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, and Virginia, modernized their facilities to become “big ship ready”? Ships anchored offshore, containers piling up on docks, long-haul trucks queuing for hours to get to the containers suggest they have not.
Popular Programming Languages
It has been a while since I reviewed the latest statistics about the most popular programming languages. The top 10 most popular programming languages according to the TIOBE Index in Sept of 2011 are. Java C C++ C# PHP Objective-C (Visual) Basic Python Perl JavaScript The list is a bit misleading. According to the Language […]
The Price of Neglect
I don’t always agree with Tom Friedman but the guy thinks about important questions and is an active contributor to major economic debates. Lately he has been promoting his new book with Michael Mandelbaum on the American predicament called That Used to be US: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How […]
The Walt Disney of Japan
with Justin Restivo Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most renowned animation creators in the world, known primarily for his classic Japanese feature-length films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and the recent release, Ponyo. He founded the Japanese animation venture, Studio Ghibli. “Ghibli” is the Arabic name for the Mediterranean wind, […]
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About Me
Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Korea since 2016. Moved to Austin, Texas in August 2012 to join the Digital Media Management program at St. Edwards University. Spent the previous decade on the faculty at New York University teaching and researching information systems, digital economics, and strategic communications.
You can reach me at:
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anthony.pennings@sunykorea.ac.kr
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- artificial intelligence
- automatrix
- books and films
- characteristics of digital media
- creative cities
- creative industries
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- cultural Industries
- data analytics and meaning
- democratic political economies
- digital coordination
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- digital geography
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- digital monetarism
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- enterprise systems
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- how IT came to rule the world
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- political economy of media
- science and technology studies
- sensing technologies
- smart new deal
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- strategic communications
- sustainable development
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- telegraphic political economy
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