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Anticipating Economic Returns of Rural Telehealth
Rural Americans face a number of very dramatic health challenges. They tend to be older, less affluent, and subject to higher instances of chronic disease than their urban counterparts. Despite the...
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Show Me the Numbers
Though much maligned (“lies, damned lies, and statistics,” anybody?), the truth is that quantitative data can indeed play a significant role in better understanding the magnitude of a particular...
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"Congress Maintains Strong Consumer-Focus for Privacy Protection," or...
Spoiler Alert: Congress has blocked the FCC from implementing new broadband privacy rules. Will this leave you and your data unprotected? No – existing FCC and other Federal guidelines provide a...
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At Long Last...Some Love for Economists?
We economists are the Rodney Dangerfields of the nation’s capital: even in a city filled with lawyers and Congressmen, we still can’t get any respect. But that could be changing—at the FCC, at...
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National Unfamiliarity with Cyber-Security Projected to Get Better with Age
A recent report from Pew Research Center indicates gaps in cyber-security awareness, but finds that younger users are more likely to have a better understanding than older users.The report, issued...
View ArticleWhat I Learned in Harrisburg
Although I was raised in Ohio, I have been developing a bit of a relationship with Pennsylvania over the past decade. It started with a series of summers camping in Lancaster, complemented by time in...
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Hey Siri?...Write Me a Blog Post
Apparently, we are becoming increasingly comfortable talking to our electronic devices. According to a recent study conducted by GfK, more than three-quarters—76%--of U.S. consumers between the ages...
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What I Learned in San Diego . . . and Dallas
Yesterday on the tarmac at DFW, the fellow sitting next to me and I shared head-shaking smiles when the flight crew played a pre-recorded audio announcement extolling the friendliness of United’s...
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It's Officially Official...Wireless Households are in the Majority
It’s a milestone you could see coming from a mile away, and now it’s finally here: over 50% of U.S. households do not have a wireline phone.As reported in an early release of the results of the...
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Ex Machina? Maybe Not Quite Yet...
Despite numerous media reports that armies of robots are coming to snatch jobs away from hard-working Americans, so far, their impact has been minimal. For one thing, the eighty-six consecutive...
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Travelogue: Mescalero, New Mexico
Friends and family often have questions about the various trips I take for work. Much has been said about how the thrill of travel can tarnish over time, and while I certainly have not reached the...
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The Internet Told Me, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” The Wall Street Journal...
(New York City) I recently discovered that my childhood home in Ohio is on the market, so I took a tour of the house via the internet.Over the course of more than 50 photos and a video, I approached...
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College, Without the Debt: A Path to Middle-Skill Jobs
Recent articles and studies indicate that U.S. manufacturing jobs are being affected more by technology than cross-border competition. These data underlie a growing need to consider a new “extraction...
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Cyber-Seniors on the Rise
A 2014 Smart Rural Community (SRC) white paper reported a significant age gap in the adoption of broadband technologies: 43% of Americans age 65 and older subscribed, compared to 80% of those between...
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Corn Pops in Harlem
Neighborhoods have a way of changing. When I first lived in New York for school, my neighborhood enjoyed the second highest homicide rate of all NYPD precincts; anything above West 98th Street was...
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That Short, Meaningless Conversation You Have with a Cashier Could be Saving...
The internet has conditioned us to short news cycles, so there is a certain nostalgia to seeing last Friday’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report of tumbling Kroger shares and mention in that article of...
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You Don't Say...
There was a time when talking to inanimate objects was a sure sign of mental instability. No longer—voice control and voice-based technologies have seen a tremendous gain in acceptance over the past...
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Travelogue: Lovington, Illinois
I travelled recently to Lovington, Illinois.Before my departure, a friend asked, “What’s in Lovington?”Category: Technology
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"It's Nice to Be Important..."
“….but it’s more important to be nice.”That was just one of the many pearls of motherly wisdom imparted to me in childhood. And to my mother’s great credit, I have found it to be almost universally...
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Travelogue: Washington, DC
I travel through Washington, DC, each day on my way to work, but I rarely have much opportunity to walk the well-known parts of the city. With no offense to the FCC, its offices, just across the...
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