Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I’m currently finishing up my next book. It addresses various strands of “Internet pessimism” and attempts to explain why all the gloom and doom theories we hear about the Internet’s impact on modern culture and economy are not generally warranted. A key theme of my book is that most Internet pessimists overlook the importance of [...]
Check out “Magic Flute: Primal Find Sings of Music’s Mystery“ in yesterday’s WSJ. The article describes the development of music as a central part of what Jacob Bronowski called the “Ascent of Man“: “I believe that before we evolved language, our communication was more musical than it is now,” says cognitive archaeologist Steven Mithen at the [...]
February 13, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
