Books of Note — Killer Drones, Tech Jobs and the Internet’s Birth on Labor Day 1969
Summer’s not over until September 21st. There’s still time for productive summer reading. Here’s three new books, each with deep relevance to issues of our times.
Media Matters Says Conservatives Rubber Stamp the Romney Energy Plan
Thank you Media Matters, for an efficient summary of the terms of the energy debate. I know it’s their job to cast issues like energy in the framework of “conservatives” who “rubber stamp” what Romney is proposing, and “liberals” who oppose it. Fair enough. But if the best, the core, of what they can come up…
The Next Great Growth Cycle
The American, Saturday, August 25, 2012 Today’s techno-pessimists say technology and America have plateaued. Such naysayers flourish during economic recessions. They have been wrong in every one of the 19 economic downturns we have experienced since 1912. They’re wrong again.
Romney Chooses a Tech-Centric Energy Plan to Jumpstart Jobs and Economic Growth
Presidential energy plans. Talk about a field littered with ignominious failures. It’s not just this Administration’s anemic results from its $70+ billion stimulus for alternative energy. Remember Carter’s Synfuels Corporation, or Clinton’s Partnership for a New Generation of (80 mpg) Vehicles? Thus far, every energy plan would work better in Hollywod than Houston. Romney’s new plan is the…
Will the Cloud’s Efficiency Cut Energy (and Coal) Use?
"…while its financial benefits have been widely discussed, the shift in energy usage in a cloud computing model has received little attention."
Look to Software Not Hardware to Fix India’s Grid
Audience viewing is up for the Olympics, setting records. But not so much in India of course where whatever share of the 600 million in the dark might otherwise have watched India’s hockey team – field hockey, guys, it’s the summer – lose to New Zealand, and thus lose a berth in the semifinals. The 2012 Olympics will…