Thought Piece Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC1EA38CBF70 "Anyone who thinks that they can see the environmental future with certainty has a bright future reporting for the Guardian, Huffington Post, Wash Post, LA Times, CNN, and NY [...]
Thought Piece Another thoughtful piece about technological complexity and commercializing 4 and 5 G Broadband, with light-handed regulation, by Holman Jenkins How to Avoid a 5G Boondoggle See Article
Thought Piece I have been assembling all of the examples of bad behavior by the churches of “Net Neutrality”, both from the efforts of the States and former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. That said, this story takes the cake. In a recent threat against FCC Chairman Agit Pai, “I will find your children and I will [...]
Thought Piece Psst! California tries to predict the future of Broadband, without being able to manage its present turmoil. With the current rollout of 5G Broadband, the Internet of Everything will require big data, currently unimaginable technology, and enormous amounts of Broadband. However, the Federal overreach of Tom Wheeler’s FCC 2015 initiative and California’s 2018 (even [...]
Thought Piece Just when I thought some of the expansive “State Rights” arguments were being throttled by state and federal courts, the Justice Department and several states are attempting to regulate the Internet, Broadband and large technology companies, again. It is worth mentioning that all of these agencies are many years behind the industries they regulate, [...]
Thought Piece FCC Chairman Still Receiving Threats Over ‘Net Neutrality’ This is a very troubling story, especially for a democracy like the US. How dare any group harass and threaten the family of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai? As a veteran of the Open Access battles of 1999-2001, I freely admit I think that the whole “Net [...]
Thought Piece "California Delusions About Broadband and the Future" There is a rapid convergence of energy, technology and broadband (aka The Internet of Things). However, the IOT will require Big Data, Big Infrastructure, Big Technology and Really Big Broadband. All of the last White House’s FCC and current California’s “Net Neutrality” initiatives harken to the [...]
Thought Piece A Phony Vote on ‘Net Neutrality’: Democrats try to rile up millennials about a deregulated internet. Long Before 3rd Cousin Net Neutrality of 2015, "They Fought over the Worldwide Internet's "Open Access:" In 2001, Access simply meant basic access to DSL and cable broadband, when the importance of Broadband was just emerging and wireless [...]
Thought Piece This is an excellent piece about the importance of cyber-security on the American grid. With the geo-political implication of a vulnerable grid, it is good time to have a non-partisan discussion about how to evolve a forward-looking strategy, being called “”segmentationnetwork.” Lexington Institute’ Constance Douris gives us a thoughtful review of the issues, with [...]
Thought Piece Yes, Oshkosh, that brunt of many jokes and the name of kids clothing! On a historical note, Lewis Hine was also an Oshkosh boy, whose father ran a restaurant in Oshkosh as did mine and who matriculated at Columbia and lived in Manhattan as did I. Arguably, Lewis Hine's photographs of child labor and [...]
