Techno-politics

Facebook removed 88 ads Thursday posted by the accounts of President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign and Vice President Mike Pence that the social media giant said were “violating our policy against organized hate.” Continue Reading →

CNBC is reporting that Amazon is planning to build its own diagnostic labs as it ramps up to test the bulk of its workforce for COVID-19 every two weeks. Workers would test themselves with nasal swabs, using a video for guidance, with a clinical professional supervising. Those testing positive will be referred to a third-party Continue Reading →

In an effort to help clarify where news posted on Facebook is originating, Facebook announced that it will place labels on posts from state-controlled media outlets. Continue Reading →

Imagine a universe where Twitter is fully regulated, an alternative Twitterverse. This is not a place that will ever exist, but sometimes it's helpful to simplify complex issues to help think them through. What would your perfect Twitterverse be like? What rules and regulations would have to exist? Would the world be a better place if your imaginary Twitterverse existed, or would it just present us with a different set of complex issues? Continue Reading →

Most of us are waking up in an unrecognizable world. We are working from home or forced to adopt new ways of working together. We're all adapting and doing our best just to get through the day. There are not many silver linings to this dark pandemic cloud. But one may be the opportunity to create new, better, more productive processes which will lead to much better products. Continue Reading →

As the world gets ready to “reopen,” there are more and more plans that include the idea of contact tracing. In practice, your phone always knows where it is, and it is relatively easy (from a technology perspective) to track your latitude and longitude. Continue Reading →

I was looking at my list of pre-pandemic theses and it is absolutely frightening how irrelevant most of them are to a post-pandemic future. Worrying about AI taking white-collar jobs, or the fate of commoditized packaged goods, or the adoption rates of IoT devices, or the potential deployment of 5G service seems meaningless if people are worried about being safe and wondering how they are going to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. So, it’s time for some new thinking, and an action plan for 2020 and beyond. Here's how. Continue Reading →

NBCUniversal is taking the unprecedented step of making "its current movies from the Universal Pictures stable — including the upcoming event family movie Trolls World Tour — will be made available on-demand at the same time they hit those theaters that remain open during the coronavirus pandemic." Continue Reading →

The thesis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection is usually expressed as "survival of the fittest." In our world, all evidence points to a slightly different synopsis: "survival of the most adaptable." Continue Reading →

Several of my clients are instituting an A-Team/B-Team strategy starting this week. The goal is to reduce the density of office workers and put additional distance (social distancing) between the workers. Desk assignments are modified to provide the recommended distance between co-workers. Continue Reading →