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Assessing the Costs of a More “Closed” Internet
I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at a very interesting and informative OECD workshop this week in Washington, DC, on how to better measure the benefits of the open Internet and the costs of...
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Bridging the Infrastructure Divides
In an era of inflated political passions, where is the pragmatic center when it comes to comparatively dull issues like infrastructure? That was a key question up for discussion last week at an event...
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Three Big Things ‘Back to the Future’ Got Right (Thanks to Government)
Today is the day that Michael J. Fox’s iconic character Marty McFly landed in a future that Hollywood imagined almost 30 years ago in Back to the Future II. It turns out that many of the amazing things...
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President Obama’s Final State of the Union and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
President Obama’s final State of the Union address serves both as a marker for his last year in office and as a reference point (and foil) for candidates on both sides of the 2016 presidential race. So...
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Poised to Destroy All Jobs but One
In the last few years a growing number of techno-futurists, like venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, former software executive Vivek Wadhwa, MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson, and author Martin Ford have...
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The Demography of Innovation in the United States: Who Innovates and How Do...
Behind every technological innovation is an individual or a team of individuals responsible for the hard scientific or engineering work. And behind each of them is an education and a set of experiences...
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Another Nail in the Coffin of Tax Reform
Perhaps without realizing it, the Obama administration sent Congress another signal that it is not serious about passing corporate tax reform this year, even a narrow bill limited to the international...
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5 Myths About Life Science Innovation in the United States
There has long been a de facto consensus among U.S. policymakers that America’s system for discovering and developing new drugs is the world’s best, and that there are two reasons for that success:...
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Copyright Infringement: Science Pirates Are Still Pirates
The scientific community has become embroiled in a debate around online piracy after Alexandra Elbaykyan, a graduate student based in Russia, setup Sci-Hub—an online database of 50 million stolen...
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Transatlantic Digital Cooperation Will Require Hard Debates
As the global Internet economy evolves and becomes more interconnected, cross-border policy tensions are rising, as is the need to resolve these tensions and conflicts in ways that continue to spur...
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