Tag Archives: Technology

Too Centralized to Fail?

Posted on June 3, 2019 by N.S. Palmer

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 →

Posted in Political Science, Society | Tagged Antitrust, Bank bailout, Competitive markets, Complex systems, Crash of 2008, DARPA, Decentralization, FTC, Giant corporations, Google, Internet, Market power, Outage, Single point of failure, Technology, Too big to fail | Leave a comment

Is Our Technology Sustainable?

Posted on May 3, 2019 by N.S. Palmer

According to aspiring Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, automation will soon eliminate countless millions of jobs. It will leave few opportunities for workers who are displaced. There’s no doubt that automation is eliminating jobs. At the grocery store, you can … Continue reading →