Making all blood universal
This is a cool article from MIT’s Technology Review. Researchers at company ZymeQuest have figured out how to make everyone a universal blood donor.
“Tech in the City,” May 3rd
This is an event hosted by Lead21 to launch my new book “Digital Dialog.” It’s a compilation of my columns on various topics including privacy, broadband, and — yes — longevity. Most of my friends are aware that I’m now
Here’s the Outlook for Search in China
From my husband, Aydin: Today China boasts over 105 million Internet users, not to mention 350M mobile users (growing by 57 million every year). By 2010, Chinese Internet users will outnumber US Internet users by 25%. Currently, 87% of the
Likebetter
If you need a break in the middle of your day, try this site: likebetter.com. It told me that if I had to choose between being a pirate and a ninja that I’d choose to be a ninja. It’s right.
Americans Without Internet Access Don’t Want it
What is it about the sentence “I don’t care about the Internet,” that some people just don’t get? Today TechNewsWorld published an article about a new study showing that: “Almost half of households without Web access don’t care that they
New Yorkers can’t walk and listen at the same time?
That’s what a state senator from Brooklyn seems to think. Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing to ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in New York City and
There’s now a mathematical formula for procrastination
Utility = E x V / (Gamma) x D. E is a person’s expectancy for succeeding at a given task; V is the value of completing the task; Gamma is its immediacy or availability; and D is the person’s sensitivity
Back from Oxnard
Ok, so I had planned to let the Command College students write a post here explaining what Command College is, but we never got around to it. Instead, we spent our time talking about Net neutrality, Muni Wifi, digital economies
Hello Command College!
I’m leading a session at the Command College today in Oxnard, CA. If you don’t know what Command College is, visit back in a few hours for your answer.
Le Web 3.0
Remember web 2.0? Well, Europe has now moved on to web 3.0. My husband went to a conference in Paris oraganized around that idea and here is his post. Apparently the conference was good, but the few politicos that showed
Federal government – no sex for those under 30 years old
Government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, yet dusty old bureaucrats are always trying to push their way in. The lastest news on this score is that “the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29
Milton Friedman died today
Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman died today at the age of 94. This is a tragic loss for humanity, as one of the greatest advocates for individual freedom and choice has ceased to exist. Milton was a close friend of
I’m back
After being away for two weeks for my wedding and honeymoon, I’m back. Regular columns will resume at TechNewsWorld next week.
Capitalism can answer John Rawls
Tuesday’s WSJ had an excellent piece (subscription required) by Ed Phelps where he argues that capitalism answers the Rawlsian test of justice because “the introduction of entrepreneurial dynamism serves to raise Rawl’s bottom scores.” Phelps just won the Nobel Prize
I’m back
After spending the summer in NYC working on a book project, I’m back in SF. The book is on the politics of longevity. It isn’t exactly done yet, but I got a good chunk of it finished.
You can’t learn to be an entreprenur
You either are born with it or not says this study.
Adobe Vs. Microsoft
Today, the WSJ reported that Adobe is threatening an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in Europe because Adobe doesn’t want Microsoft to use PDF in MS Office. So why is Adobe going to Europe? They are both American companies, so it
MS hearing about IP and freedom to innovate
On the last day of the MS hearing at the European Court of First Instance, the topic du jour was the record fine the EC charged MS. Not surprisingly, MS wanted the fine dropped and the EC wanted to keep
Déjà vu
The Court of First Instance (CFI) just finished its first morning session where the lordships (really – that’s what they call the judges) heard Microsoft attorneys and supporters discuss why the company shouldn’t be forced to remove code from its
Microsoft European court hearing begins Monday
I’m in Luxembourg today to watch the Microsoft hearing before the Court of First Instance. Two years ago, the European Commission found Microsoft guilty of abusing its dominant market position and imposed a record €497m ($613m) fine and ordered it