In the photo, from left: Bill Veltrop, Firehawk, Mike Thomas, and Peter Gaarn. In this seventh episode of our Voices series, the four founders of the Monterey Institute for Social Architecture, including our podcast regulars plus Mike Thomas and Peter Gaarn, held a roundtable discussion on how the essence and aims of corporations have evolved [...]
VoIP, Intellectual Property, and the Verizon/Vonage Battle This afternoon Vonage, a major supplier of VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone service, received the equivalent of an EMT’s emergency application of the electrical paddles to bring it back to life after cardiac arrest. What happened? Vonage, with over 2 million VoIP customers and a reputation for [...]
In this week’s podcast, Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and a key contributor to many of the concepts we now take for granted in the use of the internet today (including hyperlinking, graphics user interfaces, and the means of linking together computers over a network to leverage their collective power), took all [...]