Not only did queueing theory—or the mathematical study of waiting inlines that inspired packet-switching, the heart of Internet-styledistributed digital networks—resemble…

One more detail: according to American intelligence, the Soviet military may have been working on a "unified information network" as…

I cannot answer these questions, yet. A FOIA request and trip to Moscow may help clear up the matter some.…

Notes toward a Research Statement My research explores the humanistic imagination for communication in creative social-material complexes of technology, policy,…

An Online Hypothetical: A Published Public Domain[1] Creative commons (cc) licenses help defend individual pieces in the public domain from…

Here's a link to the history workshop on intellectual property and new media that I put together at the 2007…

I just sent this out in an email to a legal thinker I really admire, Timothy Wu, and then thought,…

An uncorrected proof of my forthcoming article, "The Cybernetics of Nabokov’s ‘Beneficence,’” in Ulbandus: The Slavic Review of Columbia University,…

An uncorrected proof of my forthcoming book chapter, "The Search Engine Democracy: Metaphors and Muhammad," in Marcel Machill and Markus…

In considering how best to use this blog, I've come to a few observations worth very little themselves but which…