Today’s Visions of the Science of Tomorrow
John Brockman is a literary agent (and agent for my book, Net Attitude) and the publisher of Edge.org, a Web site devoted to science. At the end of each year, John poses a question to leading scientists, writers and futurists. In 2002, he asked respondents to imagine that they had been nominated as White House […]
He Loves Spam? I Sure Don’t!
CNET ran a story this past May by Barry Dennis called “Why I love spam” Barry first relates his experience of some years ago when he would get a lot of postal “junk mail” that was unsolicited and he says that he loved it. He says he really appreciated the offers because he learned things […]
Vanquish Spam
I continue to get a lot of feedback on the subject of spam. Just in case you didn’t see it, Esther Dyson had an interesting column in the New York Times on the subject. She described a new company called Vanquish that is offering a new anti-spam service that sounds very interesting. I think we […]
Digital IDs: a tool to reduce Spam
I have been writing and speaking about The Future of the Internet for more than eight years — as many of you have. One of the joys of this is the feedback received from all over the world — emails I have much appreciated and from which I have learned a great deal. Never in […]
More on GIP Spam Workshop
The Global Internet Project’s (GIP) workshop: “Spam – Can It Be Stopped?” last week included keynotes by Internet architect Vint Cerf and Orson Swindle, Commissioner at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In attendance were more than 100 participants representing some of the leading experts from government, academia, law, business, and the press. There was […]
