Duly Noted

Information is power. In the first few thousand years of civilization’s existence, this evolved quickly to mean, “He who controls the flow of information controls the power.” And, for much of that time, that power resided in the ruling class,…

A couple weeks ago, Brian Barrett wrote a column for Gizmodo.com titled, “Why I Pay for Content, (and why that makes me feel like a sucker).” In it, Brian talks about how woefully arcane pay-for-content systems have become, and why…

A lot of stuff happened in 1992. Apartheid came to an end in South Africa. The Bosnian war erupted. The L.A. riots broke out upon the acquittal of the police officers charged in the Rodney King beating. The Space Shuttle…