Down The Digital Rabbit Hole As We Automate Everything

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…

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…

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…