Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part I
This post looks at Zeihan’s hypotheses and their implications for sustainable development, roughly defined by the United Nations Brundtland Commission as meeting the needs of the present, without compromising future generations. While one might say that all countries in the world are undergoing a transition to sustainable development, countries have different circumstances and develop development and economic policies and solutions differently.
The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part Two: ICANN and the Clinton-Gore Administration
The Clinton-Gore administration saw the Internet as a major opportunity but also a historically tricky infrastructure to manage, including complications with other countries.
Five Stages of ICT for Global Development
Summarized remarks from “Five Stages of Global ICT4D: Governance, Network Transformation, and the Increasing Utilization of Surplus Behavioral Data for Prediction Products and Services,” presented at the 27th AMIC Annual Conference on 17-19 June 2019 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. This presentation will explore and outline the following stages of economic and social development utilizing […]
The World is Bubbly: Capital, Cities, and Creative People
I’m concerned that as cities develop policies to become more attractive to the creative class, that they sow the seeds of their own demise by attracting excess real estate capital.
That Remote Look: History of Sensing Satellites
Both the Landsat satellites and the GOES satellites provide a constant stream of data and imagery to help understand weather events and earth resources. Both are vital to observing current meteorological and land-based events that warrant monitoring, study, and reporting.
TPP and the Role of Intellectual Property in the US Export Economy
With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal under discussion, it’s useful to look at some of the changes in the world economy, and specifically the US export economy and the increasing role of intellectual property (IP). As it stands, I’m not for the trade deal, but I feel it’s important to parse through the details […]
New Developments in GPS and Geo-Location for Mobile Technology
The ubiquity of mobile devices has focused renewed attention on the Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS), the configuration of space-based vehicles that is used to provide location data to users through their hand-carried mobile phones and tablets. GPS technologies were developed for use in aircraft, land vehicles, and ships. More recently, they have become crucial […]
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.
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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.
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