Tag Archives: Internet

What You Can Do About the World

Posted on August 7, 2019 by

The world can be a scary place. It is now. As one website commenter remarked: “We wake up, have breakfast, send the kids to school, walk the dog, go to work, come home and everything seems just fine, and then … Continue reading →

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Too Centralized to Fail?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

Google Cloud went down yesterday, and it took a big piece of the internet down with it. Large areas of the United States, Europe, and South America lost internet services until Google fixed the problem. But Google is just one … Continue reading →

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A Retro Idea to Improve the Net

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

In 1949, the legendary American comedian Groucho Marx resigned from the Friars Club of Beverly Hills. His reason? “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” A lot of people are … Continue reading →

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