Recent Posts

• Silver, Anchored by Spreadsheet Logic
• The SACT Attack: How Spreadsheet Capitalism Conquered the World
• Seven Phases of Global US Dollar Transformation: Past and Future
• The Genius Act, USD-backed Stablecoins, and the Death of the Eurodollar
• Remediating the Blurred Lines of Human-AI Collaboration in Disaster Management and Public Safety Communications
• Taylor’s Fab Rescue: The A16 Chip
• The AI Prompter as Auteur? Examining LLM Authorship Through the Lens of Film Theory
• Spreadsheet Knowledge and Production of the “Modern Fact”
• Telecom Synchronization in Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Will BRICS Effectively Tokenize Rare Earth Elements to Back a New Currency?
• Tokenization of Gold in Blockchained Spreadsheet Capitalism
• The International Politics of Domain Name (DNS) Governance, Part 3: ICANN and AI
• Situating Gold in the Substitution-Computational-Telecom Stack of Global Finance
• USD Centrality and Network Effects in the Global Economy
• APEC Presentation: Healing the COP (Common Operating Picture) with AI and APIs for Disaster Management
• Equilibrium and the Turn from Political Economy to Economics
• Peirce and Derrida on the Logic and Power of Spreadsheets and Dashboards
• Analyzing the Economics of Asymmetric Robotic Drone Warfare
• LSEG Workspace as the Central Spreadsheet Grid for Eurodollars
• Excel vs. Java: Two Languages, Two Worlds of Thought: Symbolic Grid vs. Algorithmic Script
• Reprogramming Spreadsheet Capitalism for Climate Resilience
• Stablecoins, Blockchains, and the Semiotic-Telecom-Computational Stack of Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Spreadsheet Formulas and the Temporal Imperatives of the Leveraged Buyout Economy
• Satellites for Global E-Finance and News
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 1
• Visual Rhetoric Analysis of Social Media: YouTube Channels and Memes
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 4: Generative AI for Video Synthesis
• Moving Economic and Financial Curves
• Markets and Prices: Pros, Cons
• AI and Government: Concerns Shaped from Classic Public Administration Writings
• AI Governance and the Public Management of Transportation
• Lotus 1-2-3, Temporal Finance, and the Rise of Spreadsheet Capitalism
• Steve Jobs Pioneering Work in Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) and Human-Machine Knowledge (HMK)
• Connecting a Dangerous World: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and National Concerns
• The Framing Power of Digital Spreadsheets
• Google: Monetizing the Automatrix – Rerun
• The Lasting Impact of ALOHAnet and Norman Abramson
• Legal Precedents and Perturbations Shaping US Broadband Policy
• All Watched over by “Systems” of Loving Grace
• US Legislative and Regulatory Restrictions on Deficit Spending – Reflecting on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
• Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and a Sustainable Future
• ICT4D and the Global Network Transformation
• Digital Borders and Authoritarianism
• AI and Remote Sensing for Monitoring Landslides and Flooding
• AI and the Rise of Networked Robotics
• Ode to James Larson, SUNY Korea’s First Professor Emeritus
• Analyzing the Market Structure of a Product
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 2
• The Division of Labor in Democratic Political Economies
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 3: Digital FX Emerges
• Four Futures and the S-Curve
• The Future of US Democracy: Getting Excessive Money Out of Elections
• How Do Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Use APIs and Web Scraping to Collect Data?
• Networking Connected Vehicles in the Automatrix
• Net Neutrality and the Use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Deep Packet Inspection of Internet Traffic and Net Neutrality
• US Internet Policy, Part 7: Net Neutrality Discussion Returns with New FCC Democratic Majority
• ICTs for SDG 7: Twelve Ways Digital Technologies can Support Energy Access for All
• The Increasing Value of Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS)
• Pressing Global Standards for Internet Protocols
• Public and Private Goods: Social and Policy Implications
• Remote Sensing Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction
• It’s the E-Commerce, Stupid
• Deregulating U.S. Data Communications
• “Survivable Communications,” Packet-Switching, and the Internet
• The Digital Spreadsheet: Interface to Space-Time, and Beyond?
• Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part II: Implications of Tesla’s Master Plan 3
• Technostructural Stages of Global ICT for Development (ICT4D)
• The Expanse: Cyberpunk in Space
• ICT4D and Digital Development in a Changing World
• VisiCalc and the Rise of the PC Spreadsheet
• The Techno-Epistemology of Databases, Part I
• Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part I
• Weak Domestic Dollar, Strong Global Dollar
• MMT in a Post-Covid-19 Environment
• Al Gore, Atari Democrats, and the “Invention” of the Internet
• U.S. Internet Policy, Part 6: Net Neutrality, Broadband Infrastructure and the Digital Divide
• Analyzing YouTube Channels
• Wireless Charging Infrastructure for EVs: Snack and Sell?
• The Great Monetary Surge Since 2020 and the Return of Inflation
• US Technology Diplomacy
• Symbolic Economies in the Virtual Classroom: Dead Poets and the Lawnmower Man
• Building Dystopian Economies in Facebook’s Metaverse
• Hypertext, Ad Inventory, and the Use of Behavioral Data
• The North-South Politics of Global News Flows
• ARPA and the Formation of the Modern Computer Industry, Part 2: Memex, Personal Computing, and the NSF
• Engineering the Politics of TCP/IP and the Enabling Framework of the Internet
• ARPA and the Formation of the Modern Computer Industry, Part I: Transforming SAGE
• ICT and Sustainable Development: Some Origins
• Diamonds are a World’s Best Friend? Carbon Capture and Cryptocurrency Blockchains
• Modern Monetary “Practice” and the Fear of Inflation in a Low-Supply Economy
• Thomas Edison Builds the Universal Ticker-Tape Machine
• Show-Biz: The Televisual Re-mediation of the Modern Global Economy
• US Internet Policy, Part 5: Trump, Title I, and the End of Net Neutrality
• Digital Spreadsheets as Remediated Technologies
• Internet Policy, Part 4: Obama and the Return of Net Neutrality, Temporarily
• Will Offshore Wind Power Print Money?
• COVID-19 and US Economic Policy Responses
• Five Generations of Wireless Technology
• US Internet Policy, Part 3: The FCC and Consolidation of Broadband
• Korea in a Post Covid-19 World, Part 3: The Green New Deal
• Korea in a Post Covid-19 World, Part 2: Merging Digital and Green New Deals
• The Two Santa Claus Theory of US Economic Growth and the Prospects of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
• Korea in a Post-Covid-19 World, Part 1: The Korean New Deal
• Starlink and the Return of Satellite Internet Service
• The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part Two: ICANN and the Clinton-Gore Administration
• Russia, the Fall of the USSR, and the Era of Pan-Capitalism
• The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part One: The Czar
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 2: Non-Linear Editing
• Oliver Stone’s Platoon: Jesus Christ Superstar vs. the Marlboro Man
• Memes, Propaganda, and Virality
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 1: The Camera
• “Letteracy” and Logos
• US INTERNET POLICY, PART 2: THE SHIFT TO BROADBAND
• US Internet Policy, Part 1: The Rise of ISPs
• Five Stages of ICT for Global Development
• Digital Spreadsheets – Part 5 – Numeracy and the Power of Zero
• “It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid”
• FROM NEW DEAL TO GREEN NEW DEAL, Part 2: The Failure of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
• YouTube Meaning-Creating (and Money-Making) Practices
• FROM NEW DEAL TO GREEN NEW DEAL, Part 1: Roosevelt Saves Capitalism
• Factors Supporting Early Computerization and Data Communications
• Four Futures: One Humanity
• The CDA’s Section 230: How Facebook and other ISPs became Exempt from Third Party Content Liabilities
• The Spreadsheet that Fueled the Telecom Boom – and Bust
• HOW THE US MOBILE INDUSTRY CAME TOGETHER, PART III: JUNK BONDS CONSOLIDATE THE NETWORK
• Early Internationalization of the Internet
• The World is Bubbly: Capital, Cities, and Creative People
• How the US Mobile Industry Came Together, Part II: The Grand Alliance
• How the US Mobile Industry Came Together, Part I: Transformation of the Network
• Metrics, Analytics, and Visualization
• Lasswell and Hall – Power and Meaning in Media
• Spreadsheets and the Rhetoric of Ratios
• From Gold to G-20: Flexible Currency Rates and Global Power
• Apple’s GUI and the Creation of the Microsoft’s Excel Spreadsheet Application
• Potential Bill on Net Neutrality and Deep Packet Inspection
• TIME Magazine’s “Machine of the Year”
• Digital Spreadsheets – Techno-Epistemological Power over People and Resources
• The Cyberpunk Genre as Social and Technological Analysis
• Java Continues to be the Most Popular Programming Language
• Anchoring Television News
• GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX
• THE EXPERIMENT, Part I: New Zealand as the World Model For Digital Monetarism
• Characteristics of Economic Goods and their Social Implications
• Ensuring Successful Democratic Political Economies
• Times Square’s Luminescent News Tickers and Public Spaces
• Auctioning Radio Spectrum for Mobile Services and Public Safety
• The Landsat Legacy
• Russian Interference, Viral Sharing, and Friends Lying to Friends on Social Media in the 2016 Elections
• Assessing Digital Payment Systems
• Digital Content Flow and Life Cycle: The Value Chain
• Not Like 1984: GUI and the Apple Mac
• A First Pre-VisiCalc Attempt at Electronic Spreadsheets
• CISCO SYSTEMS: FROM CAMPUS TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, PART THREE: PUSHING TCP/IP
• Lotus 1-2-3 – A Star is Born
• That Remote Look: History of Sensing Satellites
• How “STAR WARS” and the Japanese Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Led to the Internet, Part IV: Al Gore and the Internet
• Space Shuttles, Satellites, and Competition in Launch Vehicles
• GOES-16 Satellite and its Orbital Gaze
• How Schindler Used the List
• Digital Spreadsheets – The Time-Space Power of Accounting, Part 1
• Broadband Policy and the Fall of the US Internet Service Providers
• “Run to Goshen Regardless of Opposing Train”
• CISCO SYSTEMS: FROM CAMPUS TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, PART TWO: Starting Up the Tech
• Vacation
• Xbox One – Extending Virtual Reality and Multi-Player Games
• CONTENDING “INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS”
• Digital Games and Meaningful Play
• Xanadu to World Wide Web
• Cisco Systems: From Campus to the World’s Most Valuable Company, Part One: Stanford University
• The NSFNET is the Internet
• We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us
• Digital Spreadsheets – Part 5 – Ease and Epistemology
• Black Friday and Thomas Edison’s Stock Ticker
• Subsidizing Silicon: NASA and the Computer
• The MAD Origins of the Computer Age
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 4: Business Acumen
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 3: Global Knowledge and Geopolitical Risk
• Digital Content Flow and Life Cycle: Global E-Commerce
• When Finance Went Digital
• Origins of Currency Futures and other Digital Derivatives
• Statecraft and the First E-Commerce Administration
• America’s Financial Futures History
• Computer Technology and Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
• YouTube: Alice’s Rabbithole or Hypertext to Hell?
• Those Media Products are Misbehaving Economic Goods
• TPP and the Role of Intellectual Property in the US Export Economy
• Microsoft and the IBM PC Case Study: The Deal of the Century
• Mind Mapping in Higher Education
• Markets: Pros and Cons
• The Telecom Crash of 2002
• Hootsuite and the Social Media Curriculum
• Fed Watcher’s Handbook is on Amazon
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 2, Data Analytics and Visualization
• The FCC Helps Business Go “Online”
• SAGE, SABRE and the Airline Industry
• Copyright Protection and Fair Use for Creative Industries and Education
• YouTube’s Tenth Year Anniversary
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 1
• Lotus Spreadsheets – Part 4 – Symbols and Lists as Administrative Technologies
• Railroads and Western Union Connect a Continent
• Gold, Greenbacks and Invention of Electric Indicators for Financial News
• Telegraphic Communications and the Emergence of Wall Street
• Thirty-Five Activities Media Degrees Should Anticipate in Digital Work Environments
• Expressive Values and the Creative Products of the Korean Wave
• Steven Levy’s “A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge”
• Lotus Spreadsheets – Part 3 – Identifying the Components of a Transformative Tool
• IBM’s Watson AI Targets Healthcare
• Lotus Spreadsheets – The Killer App of the Reagan Revolution – Part 2 – Spreadsheet Capitalism Emerges
• The Transformation of Telecom to Global IP, GATT to GATS
• The Transformation of Telecom to Global IP – GII to WTO
• Robin Williams, Dead Poets, and Symbolic Investments in the Virtual Classroom
• Lotus Spreadsheets – The Killer App of the Reagan Revolution – Part 1
• Management and the Abstraction of Workplace Knowledge into Big Data
• Discerning Media Economics
• Reviewing Castells’ Global Automaton
• New York City’s Emphasis on Global Media Management
• Drone Journalism and Remote Sensing
• Technologies of Democracy
• Revisiting Huxley and Orwell on Technology and Democracy
• Google You Can Fly My Car
• The Surveilling Eye of Global Financial News
• E-Commerce with Chinese Characteristics
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Digital Firms, Part 2
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Digital Media Firms, Part 1
• Origins of the “Information Economy”
• How the Web Secures Your Data
• Bitcoins and the Properties of Money
• Digital Media Archetypes
• The Fedwire Network and Open Market Operations of the Federal Reserve
• Why Digital Media Firms Need to be Fed Watchers
• Licensing Creative Properties – Merchandise and Characters
• JFK’s Contribution to Global Communications
• Controversies in Intellectual Property – The Business Method Patent
• Max Headroom’s Futuristic News Gathering
• What is Entertainment?
• How to Use Facebook with an Online Course
• The Network is the Computer – UNIX and the SUN (Stanford University Network) Workstation
• Google Fiber in Austin
• Three Levels of Digital Media Metrics
• New Developments in GPS and Geo-Location for Mobile Technology
• Banner Years – The Resurgence of Online Display Ads
• Working Big Data – Hadoop and the Transformation of Data Processing
• Apollo 13: The Write Stuff
• Virality and the Diffusion of Music Videos
• E-Commerce’s Billion Dollar Mondays Still Mark Holiday Shopping Season
• The Qualtrics Conundrum
• Lincoln and the Telegraphic Civil War
• Markets Fail
• Google, You Can Drive My Car