In the mid-1990s, when the World Wide Web was just beginning to alter the high-tech landscape, and society along with it, Mr. Homer was a vice president at the Netscape Communications Corporation, the influential Silicon Valley start-up that commercialized the Web browser.
Similar problems are cropping up across the high-tech landscape: patents are literally killing AIDS victims in Africa by denying them access to affordable medicines even though we know how to make the drugs cheaply; absurdly broad e-commerce patents are tangling the World Wide Web; and overly expansive copyright laws threaten our ability to share information.
If so many "monopolies" exist, then Wu's thesis is undermined by the very fact that no single company dominates the high-tech landscape.
Consumers need to be vigilant in this high-tech landscape, where their data is accessible by any number of companies.
Because it's not too late yet; Americans have at least two months and a few ways to compel Congress to fix the FCC's big mistake--which, partisan rhetoric aside, would unavoidably strengthen the already powerful and leave every individual American in a much weaker position for handling the increasingly high-tech landscape, economy, and challenges of tomorrow.
Occasionally, even the highest of the high tech needs a low-tech corrective.
This is the high tech generation.
But for the time being, Autonomy is a rare bright spot in an otherwise depressing high-tech landscape.
Pedal steel guitars brush up against space-age keyboards, suggesting an authenticity that's become diminished; high-lonesome harmonies and barroom piano evoke a rustic Americana, while drum loops and samples stake out a more high-tech landscape.
Therefore public institutions should always protect and promote innovation, particularly in our borderless high-tech landscape.
On The Sophtware Slump, CMJ writer Richard A. Martin commented on Lytle's "sympathy for the lost souls and machines of the high-tech dot-com landscape".
