"We live in an age of digital feudalism in terms of who owns our data and online identities....less like 2011 and more like 1111."
- Marc Davis, formerly founding director of Yahoo! Research and now Architect at Microsoft Online Services
Posted February 22, 2011 | 16:52:45 (EST)
"Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web."
- Aza Raskin, Former Head of User Design at Mozilla, now co-founder of of Massive Health
"The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy...
Posted November 29, 2010 | 14:56:31 (EST)
"Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and who's gay and who's not. And moreover, in a country...
Posted March 16, 2010 | 18:04:28 (EST)
"Time is an illusion," said one of Douglas Adams' quirky characters in his Sci Fi novel the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. He then added: "Lunchtime doubly so." To paraphrase Adams, I'd say of our accelerated culture, "Time is an illusion, political time doubly so."
Our changing view of time...
Posted September 26, 2009 | 10:15:18 (EST)
"We decided to innovate our way through this downturn, so that we would be further ahead of our competitors when things turn up."
The "downturn" was not the Great Recession of 2008. It was the 2001 recession that was fading (after about three years) at the time these...
Posted April 8, 2011 | 15:32:57 (EST)