Inflection Points
Although the articles on adamalthus.com represent my personal views on the intersection of technology, policy and economics I rarely write about the personal im...
Category: internet
Is there a ‘can’ in your future?
In the economics of computing the most expensive resource is still the network. In scenarios where large data-sets are being processed it is almost always cheap...
The Composable Enterprise
We have witnessed a major shift over recent decades towards a digital services based economy[1]. Exponential growth in the power of information technology enhan...
The Laws of Platform Economics
The economic evolution of computing platforms appears to be guided by a number of ‘Laws’ that are independent of any specific underlying technology....
Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 3)
Part 2 of this series of articles looked at how transitioning from scarcity to an abundance of fundamental computing resources enabled the historic one-to-one r...
Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 2)
Part I in this series of articles outlined the impact that the economics of scarcity has had on both software architectures and the structure of the computer in...
Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 1)
The underlying economics of computing resources have always had a profound impact on development of computing architecture and in-turn the structure of the comp...
How ‘Do Not Track’ Will Transform Internet Business Models
Imagine a world where all internet browsers are required to present users with a simple question: “Do you want your online browsing activity tracked, reco...