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: Political Economy
Why There’s No Future in Cloud Futures
An interesting debate took place at last week’s Cloud2020 gathering regarding the viability of futures markets for cloud computing capacity. I’m fir...
The Jobs Are Not Coming Back
The NY Times published an interesting article today the impact of robotics on manufacturing jobs using Amazon’s purchase of robot maker Kiva Systems as an...
Policy Challenges for A Globally Integrated Innovation, Production and Market Platform
“Cloud computing” is much more than simply a new set of technologies and business models. It is rapidly emerging as the platform that will underpin the next ge...
Five Things Politicians Need to Understand About Data Centers
The Office of Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia issued a press release today trumpetting their success in convincing Microsoft to build its latest Gen4 Data Ce...
Why Regulators Need to Mandate Open Data Protocols in the Cloud
TechCrunch’s article about Intuit’s decision to shut down Quicken OnLine and not let users migrate their data to the new service Mint.com is an outs...
Does Economic Growth Require a Growing Population?
The UK’s Royal Society has just announced a major new research project on the implications of population growth. The study is to be headed by the Nobel La...
The Reality of ‘Private Cloud’
Mary-Jo Foley posted a provocative article yesterday about the reality of ‘Private Cloud’ offerings and who is driving the demand; customers or vend...
IT Platforms and the Ecology of Innovation
It has been fun being back in Beijing this week. My first visit to the city was in 1989 when the streets were still filled with bicycles. I’ve been back h...