Pundits broadly criticize the Occupy Wall Street movement for its lack of coherent messaging. These observers do not understand digital startups, which are designed to reinvent themselves or "pivot" quickly in order to meet the needs of their users. Pivot or die is the mantra of the startup...

The children of the 1960's asked "What if there was a war and nobody came?" Powerbrokers thought the question naïve and irresponsible with the potential to lead to unpredictable, anarchic results. Now, the children of the Digital Age can actually predict possible outcomes to this and other "What If?" questions....

New Jersey was the breeding ground for so many great advances in communications and media -- from the phonograph to the movie camera, from the tape recorder to the transistor, from the first experiments with news and sports radio broadcast to the first experiments in commercial broadband deployment. Yet, the...

In the extreme, Wikileaks presages two potential futures: (1) a dystopic society with a stifled, dysfunctional government, cloaked in secrecy and largely unable to communicate within its own bureaucracy, let alone with its citizens or with the world; or (2) a utopian society with a functional government, accountable to a...