chris arkenberg

A Second US Civil War?

Following an earlier 2017 survey, Foreign Policy has opened another poll to assess the likelihood of a second US Civil War. However, framing it as a second civil war embeds numerous assumptions about warfare on US soil that are based more on history than the current reality of how power…

I made a quip about Krishnan’s BAT paper earlier today on Twitter (http://sriramk.com/bat-ads) because, the way he wrote it, it didn’t look like there wasn’t much consideration of us regular folk swimming in digital ad space (he frames it mainly as publishers and advertisers). The one mention was that BAT “rewards the user for their attention…

Do you know what they know about you?

Cities and companies are increasingly deploying networks, sensors, and data systems with…