Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Ilargi: But….Then There’s the [Lithium] Math

EV fans ignores the lack of enough lithium to meet projected sales with current technology. Will the next big thing arrive soon enough?

Artificial Intelligence Could Mean Large Increases in Prosperity—But Only for a Privileged Few

Labor-saving advances in artificial intelligence may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development

Thomas Frank: YouTube Censorship and Now What’s Happening in Kansas –

Thomas Frank and Paul Jay discuss censorship by tech monopolies and changes in the political landscape of Kansas.

Facebook Bans News in Australia to Avoid Paying Charges

Facebook shuts off news and important information in Australia to bullly the government into dropping a bill requiring it to share revenue.

Working From Home: Too Much of a Good Thing

Why and how much the working from home trend is likely to be unwound post Covid (assuming a post Covid).

The Chip Shortage: Brought to You By American Neoliberalism

While the chip shortage will sort itself out in the next six months, the US can’t remedy its dependence on foreigners for critical supplies.

Intellectual Property Cause of Covid Death, Genocide

Refusal to temporarily suspend several WTO intellectual property provisions to accelerate broad progress against the pandemic is genocide.

Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan to Save the Internet: Give Us Back Control of Our Data

Tim Berners-Lee endorses data sovereignty, to give individuals the power to control their own data, to counter big tech’s overreach.

Warning: If Your Business Depends on a Platform, You Don’t Have a Business

A warnign to small fry Internet content producers: time to think of getting your own platform as a matter of self-preservation.

New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues ‘Killer Profits’ at the Expense of Americans’ Health

Rep. Katie Porter kicks some Big Pharma ass and takes names.

TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War

Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?

Should President Biden Revoke Section 230?

“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.

Michael Olenick: From Intel to Apple – Noncompetes are Bad Business

Silicon Valley would never have taken off if noncompetes had been used in its early years, yet titans later restricted hiring across the industry.

Rise of the Superstar Firms: Taking Oligopoly Seriously in Macroeconomics

Quelle surprise! Only now that EU and US officials are up in arms about monopolies are macroeconomics pros taking it seriously.

Wikipedia: The Overlooked Monopoly

Low-quality anonymous “editors” combined with a Google tie-up turned an interesting experiment into an overlooked but destructive monopoly.