Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

This week's net.wars, "Power plays", mulls our general insignificance in the scheme of digital platforms: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/01/power_plays.html

This week's net.wars, "The visible computer", revisits Marc Weiser's 1991 paper imagining 21st-century computers as restful (with a cameo appearance by @sbisson). As if: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/01/the_visible_computer.html

This week's net.wars, "Resolutions", starts 2022 with catchups: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/01/resolutions.html

This week's net.wars, "That was the year that wasn't", reviews 2021 and finds that a lot happened but nothing structural changed: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/12/that_was_the_year_that_wasnt.html

This week's net.wars, "Scale", tries to think about web3 and how it avoids the problems of scale and mismatch that have plagued the Internet to date: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/12/scale.html

This week's net.wars, "Dependencies at scale", mulls the escalating complexity that results in things like the widespread log4j bug and the AWS outage. Not the Singularity of song and story? https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/12/dependencies_at_scals.html

This week's net.wars, ""Crypto"", realizes it's time to remind people that a) "crypto" does not just mean "cryptocurrencies", and that both cryptocurrencies and their let's-get-rid-of-all-the-banks aspects have roots that go back way before bitcoin: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/12/crypto.html

This week's net.wars, "Trust and antitrust", reviews the many recent stories raising the alarm about privacy and Amazon, the US's second-most trusted organization: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/12/trust_and_antitrust.html

This week's net.wars, "Lawful interception", watches Apple sue NSO Group and recounts its back story as seen through the work of @citizenlab: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/11/lawful_interception.html

This week's net.wars, "Digital god squabble", ponders Amazon, Visa, and a reality in which we are all just grains of rice for global giants to fight over: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/11/digital_god_squabble.html

This week's net.wars, "Third wave", discovers Web3, and wishes it could be more optimistic about the prospect that *this* time decentralization will win over all the countervailing winds: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/11/third_wave.html

This week's net.wars, "The vanishing posf office (part II), sees another little chunk taken out of the social infrastructure. Granted, in a place that can probably afford it. But still: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/11/the_vanishing_post_office_part.html

This week's net.wars, "Majority Report", goes to Jon Crowcroft's workshop on computational governance, which asks how democracy and majoritarian algorithmic governance can live together: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/10/majority_report.html

This week's net.wars, "It's about power", goes to UKIGF and ponders the UK's proposed data protection reform: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/10/its_about_power.html

This week's net.wars, "The future is hybrid", ponders what happens when virtual events turn real, when employees turn on Big Tech, and when governors think reading HTML code is hacking: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/10/the_future_is_hybrid.html

This week's net.wars, "The inside view", mulls what we've learned in the last two weeks of Facebook whistleblower disclosures: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/10/the_inside_view.html

This week's net.wars, "Plausible diversions", goes to #werobot and finds the technology glamor being stripped away in favor of larger contextual analysis: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/10/plausible_diversions.html

This week's net.wars, "Is the juice worth the squeeze?" attends the first day of #werobot2021 for a discussion of how to regulate robots and steals its headline from @hartzog: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/09/is_the_juice_worth_the_squeeze.html

This week's net.wars, "Learning events", goes to #gikii and finds near-optimism among the dystopias: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/09/learning_events.html

This week's net.wars, "Globalizing Britain", notes the arriving array of policy plans and wonders what will be left afterwards: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2021/09/globalizing_britain.html