Technology

Spam sucks. Of course, we know this. The point is that spam could be stopped, but the result would no longer be email as we know it today.

Corey Doctorow gave

Neil Gershenfeld, from The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, opened today’s

Sam Ruby talks about why we can’t “just use http”.

Ouch. My head hurts. This is important stuff, and I do mostly understand it, but I’m not gonna do it justice

Random short notes … here’s a link to the reinventing radio presentation.

10 hours of listener’s

Wendy Seltzer and Jason Schultz from the EFF gave a great presentation at eTech this afternoon. Many electronic and software

George Dyson presented a fascinating history regarding the early days of modern computing, starting in the 1930s when folks such as von Neumann and Godel moved

The second part of the first morning’s session at eTech includes lightning talks, 15 minutes each, by representatives of Microsoft, Yahoo and Google’s research