February 12, 2008

Welcome to the Metaverse

I've always told my friends: "you can't just read about Open Croquet, you have to see it demonstrated."
Now you can.

If you want to read why Second Life Won't Get a Third, I'll tell you. In any case, collaborating freely in co-creative worlds is your future. Get ready.

-Max Borders

January 07, 2008

Free Muni WiFi - Whither Government?

A company wants to blanket San Francisco in free WiFi -- for FREE. If the private sector is thinking of doing this, why is anyone considering letting government do this, much less with taxpayers dollars?
-Max Borders

January 03, 2008

Bizarre Virtual Politics

Just when you thought things couldn't get any weirder for '08, the world of emmersive activism heats up.
-Max Borders

November 30, 2007

Climate Change: Technology or Regulation?

If (and that's a big if) man is causing global warming... and if such warming would actually result in negative or catastrophic consequences, should we allow for technological solutions that will arise from prosperity and innovation, or should we regulate ourselves into an economic recession?
-Max Borders

May 22, 2007

Gub'ment Bitness: Oxy Moronic

Here's another reason why government shouldn't be in the business of, well, anything. Government's don't have profit motives, which is why municiple wifi may sound great at the face of it -- but the economics are just not there in most cases. If they were, businesses would find a way to offer the service.

It was no good for this California town and it won't be good for N.C. towns either.

May 21, 2007

Technology Paradox for Conservatives and Liberals

John Edwards is way ahead of the Internet game, according to Rob Christensen. Have the conservatives not learned anything from MoveOn.org and the Deaniacs? 

The irony in all of this is that the conservatives - willing to embrace the dynamism, decentralization, and dexterity of the free market - seem unwilling to embrace technologies that have these characteristics, which could help their campaigns. More ironic still, liberals - willing to embrace dynamism, decentralization, and dexterity for their activism - are unwilling to embrace it in the social order--preferring top-down control.