Some Weekend Reading

Posted on July 28, 2000 by Dan Gillmor

  • Bob Metcalfe: What’s next for TCP/IP? Instead of HTML over HTTP over TCP over IP over ATM over SONet (Synchronous Optical Network), how about some real protocol disintermediation — like Napster directly on the lambdas of DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) fibers?
  • Anthony Lewis: Breaking the Silence. There are already signs around the country of unease with the human cost and practical failure of our drug policy. Perhaps the shadow conventions will move more political leaders to face the reality recently stated by The Economist of London: “That misguided policy has put millions of people behind bars, cost billions, encouraged crime and spread corruption while failing completely to reduce drug abuse.” Amen.
  • Adam Lashinsky: Microsoft Notebook: Some Straight Talk. Ballmer made perhaps the strongest and most convincing argument that near-term revenue growth is not what’s important. “Investing in the company is,” he said.

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