The Year of Virtual Reality
If consensus were a reliable predictor of the future, it would be wise to bet all your money on that Virtual Reality will be the killer app of 2016. Most…
2015 Download
2015 was a very active year for High Tech Forum because so much went down in Internet and mobile policy, with major developments in all the key policy areas and…
Evaluating Our Predictions for 2015
Last March, I wrote a post evaluating three of the most interesting technology predictions for 2015; one from Frog Design on fitness devices, one from Deloitte on “Software-Defined Everything,” and one of…
The Software-Defined Internet
The Internet continues to change. The traditional Internet was a highly static system: All addresses were global, endpoints were stationary, users were tied to a single primary device, and the…
Is AI Held Back by the Profit Motive?
In my overview post on the Internet of Things, I offered the suggestion that IoT needs artificial intelligence to succeed: One of the primary challenges for the smart home and…
Srinivasan’s Curious Question
One the more puzzling parts of the oral arguments in the challenge to the FCC’s most recent Internet Service Provider regulations was Judge Srinivasan’s iPad question. It was a singular…
FCC’s Factual Errors in Oral Argument: Part 1, DNS
The oral arguments in the challenge to the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet regulations illustrated the difference between the way engineers and users see the Internet and the way that lawyers…
Net Neutrality Oral Arguments
At 9:30 AM Eastern Time on Friday December 4th, the legal gunslingers representing US Telecom and the FCC will show down before a three judge panel of the DC Circuit…
This Connected Life: Black Friday Goes Online
For a while now, shopping around Thanksgiving has been a mix of in-store and online, that’s nothing new. But this year something happened that we haven’t seen before: A National Retail…
Needles in Haystacks
As expected, the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology FCC oversight hearing featured some controversy. Commissioners Pai and O’Riely pointed out just how severely the chairman has been depriving them of…