Occupation: Academic
There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't c….
The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising..
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-onl….
You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television. And it was this idea….
History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick ….
The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation..
In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for i….
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the develop….
I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so therefore, not only Google, but Google, Faceb….
Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads..
Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash..
Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's….
The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote ….
I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself..
We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states..
Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only wa….
In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were on the page….
Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where th….
If you really care about content, you should pay for it..
When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart..
Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers..