Encryption Wars “We live in the Great Surveillance Society” – Amit Yoran. “Developers must take into account misuses of their technology” – Stewart Baker. “Britain: more cameras per capita, turning in computer mikes give grim meaning to Open Society.” – Amit Yoran. “Apple will ensure Iphone unhackable. In tech do we trust? Or are they… Read More South by Southwest 2016: Technology, Law, and Ethics
The South by Southwest Trade Show 2016 brought a variety of tech services together with demos, short presentations, and lots of freebies. Participants included Knowbility, demos of Hatsune Miku, NoMaps, New Trackers, NASA, VR demos, Dell Healthive, Gaping Void, UT Health, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the U.S. Department of Transportation, Grindr, costumed vendors, and… Read More South by Southwest Trade Show 2016: robots, apps, future tools
Parking right up front at Texas Tribune Festival (at AT&T Conference Center at UT Austin). Is the Texas fracking boom over? Chaos is “behind us”, says panelist Fracking: South Texas will never be the same as it was The Tribune Festival The event has spread across the campus, so my first stop was Welsh Hall, where… Read More Texas Tribune Festival 2015
Hurrah! It’s the fabulous Julie Mason, Texan bred, once a proud journalist at the Houston Chronicle, now working with POTUS, and with Sirius XM Radio. Line up: Kay Bailey Hutchison, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, John H. Sununu, a former Governor of New Hampshire and White House chief of staff, U.S. Sen… Read More Can the Center Hold?
Nancy Pelosi gets a standing welcome from conference attendees. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is interviewed by Abby Livingston, Washington Bureau Chief for the Texas Tribune. America’s place in the world ipsum lorem
Larry Lessig, professor of law at the Harvard School of Law and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, co-founder of Creative Commons, and (briefly), a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. Lessig was interviewed by Karen Tumulty, a correspondent for The Washington Post. For context (from Wiki): Larry Lessig described his candidacy as a… Read More Larry Lessig’s 2016 presidential run
Darden Smith at the Austin Forum on Austin Music: Music and Tech — the Perfect Storm. (Texas State Theatre). The perfect storm: high costs and low revenue Darden Smith kicked off the Austin Forum playing some righteous tunes, strumming his beat-up guitar, embracing us in his Sweet Lovin’ Arms. Austin at its finest. Smith said… Read More Darden Smith at Austin Forum, where music and tech flood the Austin zone with…
Ted Cruz under fire at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival. Lots of suits here but the boo’s, so far, at earlier events, were from conservatives. Cruz goes one-on-one with Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz. Ted Cruz chooses racism at the Texas Tribune Festival when he calls undocumented workers and their families “illegals” and suggests… Read More Cruzin’ off the rails with Ted Cruz
Can the Center Hold? To be (in the center) or not to be? Thus is the question today discussed with Evan Smith (Tribfest) with those listed above. Quotable quotes: The system is dominated by money. We don’t have any idea where we are headed. Republicans are talking nonsensical garbage. Hutchinson – redistributing and gerrymandering. The primary… Read More Left of center: is there a Texas political “center” and how’s it doing?
Michael Burgess Garnet Coleman Sarah Davis Kyle Janek Charles Schwertner Charles Ornstein (mod.) (Update: This panel was packed and during the open questions section, the audience was extremely energized over the issues, going from laud applause to outright boos to panelists who were opposed to the Affordable Care Act. One audience member added that he was surprised that even… Read More Healthcare: broken promises, broken state, broken healthcare system
Transportation what’s next? Robert Eckels Clay Jenkins Bill Meadows Jonathan Stickland Marc Williams Aman Batheja (mod.) (speakers not seated in order of names listed) I’m not as excited as the panelists about the “existing opportunities” for Texas transportation, as it has been implemented over the last decade. Honestly, with the demographic data in hand, and the… Read More Texas transportation and High-Speed Rail: more of a wish than a plan, but the money is there
Liar, Liars, steroids are fire According to Noah Zandan, clarity of language and in your writing indicate truthiness. When you tell the truth, you use simpler sentences. What does this say about smart people? Do complicated sentences hide the lies? Lance Armstrong said many words, very rapidly, and ultimately he was found to have taken… Read More Liar, Liar: looking up-data for your dirty, dirty, lies
Michael Lazerow wants you to be weird. Because weird is good. He’s in the right place: he’s at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, in a vortex chock full of smart chocolate chip weirdos rolled up in a big all of marketer and VC goo. But even burnt — and we are all pretty burnt… Read More Where there’s a weirdo, there’s a way: why weird wins over vanilla every time
Playing with your own big data: Ed Hunsinger at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. Ed Hunsinger: part man, part machine; does this equal…cyborg? Not quite. It’s all perfectly normal and you will see more and more 2000 Men and Women soon, tracking their bodies’ performances with data selfies, using such devices at FitBit,( http://www.fitbit.com/ ),… Read More Personal tracking with Ed Hunsinger: part big data, all man
Katie Covington presented on “For the Makers) at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas DIY API open-source For Makers. #futureDIY Katie Covington quit her job and started Open Source For The Makers (http://www.opensourcemakerlabs.com/ ) where makers gave designs away for free. She explained how those interested in developing the project figured… Read More Katie Covington: Making fun with Open Source for Makers
What John Biehler said when he saw Pre Pettis and MakerBot on The Daily Show How 3D Printing Changed John Biegher’s Life John Biehler bought a 3D printer as soon as he saw one demonstrated on The Daily Show. He’s been experimenting with it and extending what can be done with it ever since. Biehler… Read More Shut up and take my money: John Biehler and 3D printing
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