I’ve been hammering Jonathan Zittrain pretty hard here over the past year for the thesis he sets forth in The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It that digital “generativity” is at risk today. The reason I have been doing so is because all signs point in the exact opposite dir...

I used to have a (semi-crazy) uncle who typically began conversations with lame jokes or bad riddles. This sounds like one he might have used had he lived long enough: What do Thomas Jefferson, a moose, and cyberspace have in common? The answer to that question can be found in a new book, In Search ...

It’s been a big year for tech policy books. Several important titles were released in 2008 that offer interesting perspectives about the future of the Internet and the impact digital technologies are having on our lives, culture, and economy. Back in September, I compared some of the most popu...

Via Jeff Jonas, who oh-so-carefully assessed the treatment he received in Stephen Baker’s book The Numerati , I came across this NPR interview with Baker. In the latter part of the interview, Baker discusses pretty accurately Jonas’ dissent from the passion for predictive data mining in ...

I’ve just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it’s another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory — p...

This catfight between Ron Rosenbaum of Slate and Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine about the future of journalism in the Internet Age is quite a heated affair. But what I found most interesting about it is that it reflects one element of the Net “optimist — pessimist” divide that I have ...

I’ve been reading Daniel Waterland’s A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist, written in 1737 and it is a tremendous work that shows that Anglican views in the main regarding the Eucharist during that time were thoroughly Protestant and echoed much of the best thought on the continent....

Another choice quote from the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen, in view of some of the promiscuous and wildly unsubstantiated charges that have been made by some here (including one whose website appears to list an ignominous roster of “gay-friendly churches”…) about important aspects of theo...

It struck me while recently re-reading John Hesselink’s On Being Reformed, that Calvinism is (and therefore ought be) passionately concerned with SOCIAL ORDER. For example, how does Calvin conclude his magnum opus, The Institutes of the Christian Religion . With a discussion on the ordo saludi...

I have the sense that we are at crossroads in our Country. I’m not sure I can give specific reasons why though, especially historically adroit ones. I want to think about who we are, what we’re doing and who are these candidates who are vying for our support, and in the end, our allegiance. In J...