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Several years ago I worked on a project for a client examining the business opportunities in mobile healthcare—particularly in developing countries. At the time,  it all seemed theoretical—if you had good mobile connections and if smart phone penetration were high … Continue reading →

The upcoming issue of the Atlantic has a fascinating piece written by neuroscientist David Eagleman about criminal behavior and responsibility. It’s apparently adapted from his book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain—which I am looking forward to reading during … Continue reading →

As announced earlier this week, I’m going to be spending my 20% time next year at the Berkman Center researching the ethics of predictive analytics. I’m really excited about the opportunity. Though much of my work in the past two … Continue reading →

I have taken quite a long break from blogging, but hope to begin again with renewed energy in the coming months. As the first foray back into writing, and the first blog post of 2011, I’m going to share the … Continue reading →

I was in a graduate program with a bunch of engineers studying energy and environmental sciences, transportation systems, and civil engineering. When I first started the program, I didn’t fully understand that there were any significant parallels between my work … Continue reading →

About once a month one of my Google calendars rises up from hibernation to remind me of birthdays. I’ll never forget as a child going to visit my grandmother, who every week would sit down with her calendar in front … Continue reading →

Over in Europe there is an interesting debate raging about a “right to be forgotten.” I find it a fascinating debate on many levels, and as a primer point you to this analysis written up by a colleague. At the … Continue reading →

Earlier this week I was honored to have been invited to participate in an online symposium revisiting the ideas laid out in Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet.  There is a lot of fascinating material there to pour … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about determinism lately, and wondering whether or not it matters for privacy. Specifically, if the audience of shared information is non-deterministic, are there circumstances in which that information should be considered anything other than public? Twitter has … Continue reading →

At some point in July my blog went down. I have been so preoccupied, I’m not even sure when exactly that happened. I discovered it July 31 and it took me a few days to get around to fixing it. … Continue reading →