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Shapeways: Make Things With Code!
Albert Wenger – Jun 19, 2014
Shapeways is a partner for Google’s brand new MadeWithCode initiative aimed at getting more girls excited about coding and computational thinking. What is important about this initiative is that it will broaden the understanding of what can be done with [...] Read more
Unbundling of the Job
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2014
Last week I posted a draft outline for my planned book on “The Coming Information Age” with a proposed chapter on the “Unbundling of the Job.” This is an idea that first occurred to me when I attended a workshop [...] Read more
The Coming Information Age (Possible Book Outline)
Albert Wenger – Jun 12, 2014
As I am blogging my way through the various aspects of a transition to the Information Age I am still keeping in mind that eventually I would like to gather up all the material into a book. So here is [...] Read more
Raising Money to Help African Girls Stay in School (Our Daughter’s Fundraiser)
Albert Wenger – Jun 11, 2014
One of the things we have been emphasizing in homeschooling our children is the importance of giving back. So I am incredibly thrilled that our daughter has launched a Crowdrise fundraiser to support girls at schools in the Lewa Wildlife [...] Read more
Technology, Time Preference and the Return on Capital (Companies)
Albert Wenger – Jun 10, 2014
Just as a quick recap. I have argued in Computers and the Return on Capital that having cheaper information flows will in the long run drive the risk free rate of return to the time preference. I then examined how [...] Read more
Reset The Net – With Care
Albert Wenger – Jun 5, 2014
Today a broad campaign called Reset The Net has launched with the tagline “Don’t ask for Your privacy. Take it back.” Today also marks the one year anniversary of the Edward Snowden leaks that showed the extent of the NSA [...] Read more
The End of Categories
Albert Wenger – Jun 4, 2014
We like to put things in categories: public versus private company; for profit versus charity; professional versus amateur; creator versus consumer; journalist versus blogger; teacher versus student; and so much more. Of course not all categorizations are binary. In academia, [...] Read more
Technology, Time Preference and the Return on Capital (Individuals)
Albert Wenger – Jun 2, 2014
In my post on Computers and the Return on Capital I made the point that cheaper and more ubiquitous flows of information will drive the risk free return on capital towards the time preference (assuming that capital can also flow [...] Read more
Consumer Surplus and Returns to Capital
Albert Wenger – May 28, 2014
Yesterday’s post on the impact of computers on the return of capital didn’t mention the shift from producer to consumer surplus. Tren Griffin rightly called this out on Twitter. I have written a lot about the rising importance of consumer [...] Read more