Information industries are facing re-organization. This extends to a remarkable range of businesses that specialize in knowing things, whether it is travel agents, lawyers, doctors or academics. More sophisticated coding and connectivity can process and communicate routine information inputs to make marketable products for consumers with less cost and human involvement. Journalists have suffered acutely… (read more)
Spare a thought for the members of the IPBES – the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. We have talked about them before in this blog. While their more famous colleaues on the IPCC – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – garner continuing headlines, the IPBES languish in obscurity despite the detailed… (read more)
Most people get their news from the internet. Censorship of the news is a serious threat to a free society. Yet censorship on the internet is a complex affair. In the United States, this revolves largely around section 230 in the Communications Decency Act. This is the same section for which President Trump produced an… (read more)
