Information is the key to defeating COVID-19
The chief constraints on the world are physical and temporal. Abundant information, however, helps us evade and sometimes conquer these facts of life. Without the internet, life in the middle of the...
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The info-tech solution to re-open the economy – Indianapolis Business Journal – April 10, 2020The Internet vs. COVID-19 – AEIdeas – April 9, 2020Information is the key to defeating COVID-19 – AEIdeas...
View ArticleBack to Work, Back to School, Back to the Future
A lack of faith in the future. That could be the central problem with today’s perilous politics. It’s an age-old dilemma because it’s far easier to tear down than to build up. Gravity and...
View ArticleThe $540,000 camera in your pocket
Every couple years, we update our original 2014 blog post that asked the question, “What would an iPhone have cost in 1991?” The purpose is to measure — at least in a rough way — the progress of...
View ArticleThe technology solution to hysterical mythmaking
In an MSNBC interview on Monday, Steve Coll, dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was contemplating a staggering dilemma. You see, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “profoundly...
View ArticleDigital Duplicity
The social media purge exposes net neutrality’s true goal AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File For nearly two decades, Silicon Valley made net neutrality its highest policy priority. Under the banner of a...
View ArticleBig Tech and Big Finance Breed Hubris
See our latest in The Wall Street Journal . . . The suppression of debate over the origin of the novel coronavirus highlights a broader problem. Governments were once the chief impediments to free...
View ArticleAs rationale for total vaccination sputters, censorship soars
A trove of internal Facebook documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal confirms what has been obvious for several years: Facebook exempts select VIPs from its content moderation rules while...
View ArticleA Pandemic Pivot Point: The Counterintuitive Dynamics of Covid-19
How over-vaccination drives the pandemic. The power of innate and recovered immunity. The early treatment solution. The unwisdom of vaccinating young people. See our new report offering a new...
View ArticleUpdate: The Counterintuitive Dynamics of Covid-19
Here’s the latest report from the United Kingdom, widely acknowledged to keep the best (although not perfect) data. In our November report, we discussed the reasons for this seemingly bizarre...
View ArticleUpdate: Uttar Pradesh, India vs. Israel
Here’s a crude comparison of Uttar Pradesh, India, population ~241 million, and Israel, population ~9.2 million. In their strategies to combat Covid-19, Uttar Pradesh has focused on early treatment...
View ArticleUpdate: Uttar Pradesh, India, vs. Israel
Here’s a crude comparison of Uttar Pradesh, India, population ~241 million, and Israel, population ~9.2 million. In their strategies to combat Covid-19, Uttar Pradesh has focused on early treatment...
View ArticleHow the war on ‘misinformation’ propelled the Covid cataclysm
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.” – Richard Feynman Spectacular falsehoods, deep truths, and Canadian truckers are finally piercing the long-impervious Covid storyline. When a...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom update: Weeks 4-7, 20 February, 2022
Here are updates from the Week 8 UK Covid-19 surveillance report.
View ArticleCovid-19 cases in UK rising again. Large negative effectiveness gap widens...
These are official UK data for weeks 09-12, through March 27, 2022.
View ArticleIntroducing Infonomena – high entropy analysis of tech and the global economy
We’ve launched a new Substack channel called Infonomena. Please check it out and subscribe. There’s a free option with occasional public posts, updates, and data points. But there’s lots more. We’re...
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