Tech Planet Journal

Tech Planet Journal Tech Planet Journal, a project of Future 500, helps both chronicle and shape the digital revolution - the good and the bad, the promising and the perilous.

We conduct our work via:

•A Website Clearinghouse of case studies, organizations, tools, services, and reports that document the current and potential impacts of digital technologies on sustainability, prosperity, and democracy.

•An E-Newsletter with compelling news, bulletins, and resources that companies and citizens can use to minimize the negative and maximize the positive impacts of technol

ogy.

•Meetings and Events that draw together corporate, investor, non-profit, and public sector stakeholders, to communicate and collaborate to advance the potential of the digital era.

•We are optimistic, but realistic; idealistic, but pragmatic. We want to understand and help people and businesses harness digital technology to advance our goals and objectives

11/14/2018

The sketch-comedy show has owned up to problems in the past, but they’re usually not so straightforward, earnest and seemingly heartfelt.

The "death penalty" for Tesla in NJ?
03/12/2014

The "death penalty" for Tesla in NJ?

Democracy, Digital Energy, ProsperityChris Christie sells out to the car dealers and hurts consumers, blocks Tesla’s direct sales modelMarch 12, 2014Nick SorrentinoLeave a commentWhy in the world can’t I go to Toyota.com, pick out a new car, customize it, do the financing if need be, and then have i...

Innovation is the way to success even more now than before.
03/04/2014

Innovation is the way to success even more now than before.

Featured, SustainabilityWhy A Decentralized, Digital Economy Is A Magnet For InnovationMarch 4, 2014EditorLeave a commentDecentralized, open sourced economic action is the way forward. Instead of the centralized and highly hierarchical economic models of the 20th Century, the 21st Century (or at lea...

Think of them as your government buddies.
02/17/2014

Think of them as your government buddies.

Democracy, Prosperity, UncategorizedFeds want to track your DNA like a licence plate (Yep we’re there)February 17, 2014Nick SorrentinoLeave a comment This isn’t surprising. I think many of us just assumed that to some degree this sort of research has been going on. The surveillance state contractor…

Innovation always creates enemies.
02/12/2014

Innovation always creates enemies.

ProsperityHow taxi cartels resort to desperate measures to kill innovation and save their crumbling industry.February 11, 2014Nick SorrentinoLeave a commentDespite this latest effort by taxi companies to exploit a tragic accident caused by an Uber driver, the people (aka the market) have spoken.Peop...

Good for tech. Privacy is vital to the Internet on all levels, but perhaps especially from a business perspective.
02/07/2014

Good for tech. Privacy is vital to the Internet on all levels, but perhaps especially from a business perspective.

Democracy, ProsperityBig Tech moves to counter the NSA on the lobbying frontFebruary 7, 2014Nick SorrentinoLeave a commentThe fight for policy is often fought along K Street not in the Capitol or in the White House. In Gucci Gulch the future of industries is worked out. Who gets government largess,…

The war continues.
02/06/2014

The war continues.

DemocracyWired: The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of UsFebruary 5, 2014Nick SorrentinoLeave a comment War is waged online, every single day, 24 hours a day. The world goes on about its business for the most part while battles, massive battles, rage in cyberspace. It...

02/04/2014

Democracy, UncategorizedEFF and ACLU Lawsuit Against LAPD, License Plate Readers BeginsFebruary 3, 2014Nick SorrentinoLeave a commentIs privacy just dead? Or can we revive at least some of it?From BenSwann.comLast Friday the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil liberties Union...

02/03/2014

Broadband, Prosperity, UncategorizedData wars begin in earnest, AT&T cuts rates, challenges challengersFebruary 3, 2014EditorLeave a commentOne of the beautiful things about data is that it gets less expensive with time. This vital commodity for the “digital revolution” is more and more readily avai...

Should we get rid of ATMs to save bank teller jobs?
01/30/2014

Should we get rid of ATMs to save bank teller jobs?

It’s not just Obama’s challenge, it’s a challenge for the country and for the world. As more and more jobs are automated how will we as societies handle this? Will we rush to restrict commerce and development? To kill ATMs to save bank teller jobs? Let’s hope not as that would be a recipe for stagna...

3 D printing, cryptocurrencies, the world is changing fast.
01/27/2014

3 D printing, cryptocurrencies, the world is changing fast.

I was talking with my wife the other day about how Bitcoin only 3 years ago was an obscure experiment engaged in by cyber-punks and anti-central bank people. It was really an anarchist effort (in the good sense of maximum freedom, not in the bad sense of throwing Molotov cocktails.) Totally on the f...

One can hope I guess.
01/16/2014

One can hope I guess.

On Friday President Obama will list some changes to NSA domestic spying policy. Will any real headway be made in reigning in the agency?

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