There is a new Big Thing coming. I’m not talking about the election, but a deep secular cycle in technology that has enormous implications for our economy. The pessimists are wrong about the end of innovation, and growth, just as they have been serially wrong for as long as there’s been techno-pessimists and intellectual Malthusians. But the…
This past Sunday, investigative journalists at The New York Times created something of a furor in the dweeb-o-sphere with a lengthy article titled Power, Pollution and the Internet: The Cloud Factories. “A yearlong examination by The New York Times has revealed that [the] foundation of the information industry is sharply at odds with its image…
Around the world when countries make major oil and gas discoveries there follows if not celebrating in the streets, high fives in the halls of governments. It’s no surprise. The world runs on hydrocarbons, and will for a long time. If you find ‘em, you can cut your import deficits. And if you have enough,…
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.
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…
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…