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Perambulation

Thoughts on data, society, and other things that don't fit neatly into buckets.

On data and music

January 2, 2015 – 1:28 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

From Mozart’s flourishes to today’s music streaming, I’m going to spend part of 2015 looking at how data is transforming music.

Blue-collar AR

November 26, 2014 – 11:46 am by Alistair 0 Comments

Hipster-wearing Glassheads aside, the real future of AR is blue collar work. Just wait until the unions figure out that’s a Trojan Horse for robots.

Old laws, new problems

November 3, 2014 – 12:32 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

Instead of writing new laws to deal with tech, maybe we need to adapt the existing ones.

The perils of metadata and privacy

October 14, 2014 – 4:47 pm by Alistair 1 Comment

Just because you only look at metadata doesn’t mean you’re free of ethical and legal concerns. Here’s an example.

Carriers are taking a page from discount airlines

October 2, 2014 – 3:15 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

With one fight in the net neutrality war lost, carriers are borrowing a page from discount airlines and using free services as a Trojan Horse for the tiered Internet.

On dreams of climate and consequence

May 20, 2014 – 9:40 am by Alistair 0 Comments

What if your access to something tomorrow depended on your behavior today, but you only knew about it in retrospect? Also, a weird dream.