AT&T and T-Mobile are expected to roll out cell phone service tomorrow to several platforms in the New York subway system. This is not unprecedented; California’s BART and Boston’s MBTA have had similar systems for years. This is a good …
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Paying for something “free”
Posted by Steve
on 20 September 2011 0:09
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Netflix got a lot of backlash when they raised prices last month by separating subscriptions for their streaming and DVD-by-mail services. Today they announced that the DVD service is being spun off as a separate business unit with a new …
Subscription services
Posted by Steve
on 13 September 2011 1:16
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Amazon is reported to be “in talks” to create a subscription service for ebooks. While Amazon’s “selling” (read: licensing) of ebooks through their Kindle ecosystem currently blurs the distinction between owning something and merely being allowed to use it, subscription …
Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom
Posted by Steve
on 7 September 2011 22:19
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“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? / Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” So wrote T. S. Eliot. Technology puts in our hands a tremendous source of information. Google, for example, has obsoleted the …
Posts to come for CS 404: Ethics and Computers in Society
Posted by Steve
on 30 August 2011 17:43
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This semester at BYU I’m enrolled in Charles Knutson’s CS 404 course, entitled “Ethics and Computers in Society.” As part of that class, I will write regular posts in response to the assigned reading material. I’ve decided to post those …