So he says: Couch potatoes have killed the internet dream. http://t.co/uPMUWI8gNa — Dave Winer ☮ (@davewiner) October 26, 2014 But I think the news is actually far less depressing. The core piece of supposed “evidence” in the article is contained in this sentence: Today, just 30 companies, including Netflix and Google, contribute on average more…

England, in the 1680’s. Isaac Newton is hard at work formulating his famous Laws of Motion. Except that this time, he has access to that great big savior technology, Big Data. Naturally, what does he do? First, he collects as much data as he can about the movement of things. Balls rolling down slopes. Stars…

@cisco: “The Internet must be subject to a higher amount of control, and big companies will work with governments to make that possible.” Those guys don’t understand that Cisco wouldn’t have a business if the internet had been “subject to a higher amount of control” by either governments or big companies. And that the more…

Douglas Adams: “In England, it is generally considered socially incorrect to know stuff or think about things.” In a footnote in The Salmon of Doubt. He was right, it’s just not limited to England.

Think of the life of the software developer. Nothing ever works. Because as soon as it works, the product is done, it gets shipped, and perhaps we get to play with it in all its glory for half a day. Then we are back to the next feature request, the next bug fix, the next…