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Artificial Intelligence, etc:

Google’s Woke A.I. Fiasco Exposes Deeper Infowarp – Infonomena – March 6, 2024
Disaster Altruism and the Weekend Revolution at OpenAI – Infonomena – November 20, 2023
A License to Compute Would Concentrate Computation and Speech, Stifling Both – Infonomena – June 10, 2023
Soft Power Squared: GPT and the Explosive Potential of A.I. Parallelism – Infonomena – April 18, 2023
Censors Target Internet Talkers with A.I. Truth Scores – Infonomena – February 22, 2023
How Generative Pre-training Will Transform the Economy – Infonomena – February 1, 2023
Robots and Good Jobs on the Other Side of Covid-flation – Infonomena – June 7, 2022
Who needs agriculture and airplanes? The inhumanity of the anti-technology intelligentsia – AEIdeas – November 5, 2019
Rising productivity growth – blip or boom? – AEIdeas – September 12, 2019
Automation creates good jobs – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – November 3, 2018
Beyond the A.I. Hype: The Reality of Intelligent Infrastructure and Human Augmentation – AEIdeas – April 25, 2018
Tax Reform Can Boost Technology, Productivity, and, Yes, Your Wage – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – December 14, 2017
Does the Conventional Wisdom About Productivity Need to be Reconsidered? A Symposium – International Economy – Fall 2017
Don’t Be a Techno-Pessimist: Innovation Can Save the Day – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – August 22, 2017
Robots Will Save the Economy – by Bret Swanson and Michael Mandel – The Wall Street Journal – May 15, 2017
The Coming Productivity Boom: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information – Technology CEO Council – March 2017
Google, Go, Gelernter, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence – AEIdeas – March 24, 2016
The App-ification of Medicine: A Four-Faceted Information Revolution in Health – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – September 2015
Moore’s Law at 50: The Performance and Prospects of the Exponential Economy – American Enterprise Institute – November 2015
Are iPads and Google-bots the End of the Human Race? – TechnPolicyDaily.com – January 23, 2014
Artificial Intelligence, Etc. article page

Covid-19:

Smoking Enzyme (Re)Confirms SARS2 Was Engineered – Infonomena – January 29, 2024
Covid and the Golly Folly: How did the experts turn everything upside down? – Infonomena – September 15, 2023
Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly – The Wall Street Journal – July 8, 2023
Dr. Hotez’s Data Is Highly Flawed – Infonomena – June 25, 2023
Society of Actuaries Shows Continued Young Adult Mortality Spike – Infonomena – May 31, 2023
Japan Matches Germany’s 2022 Mortality Spike – Infonomena – April 10, 2023
Dr. Frieden’s Follies – Infonomena – March 20, 2023
Who Engineered the Virus? – Infonomena – March 10, 2023
Mortality Play: 2020 vs. 2021-22 – A global survey of excess demise – Infonomena – February 28, 2023
Dr. Fauci’s Brooklyn Bromides – Infonomena – February 9, 2023
A Narrative that’s Too Big to Fail – Infonomena – February 5, 2023
“I hope we don’t find out…this mRNA lingers in the body,” says Pfizer doctor – Infonomena – February 2, 2023
The Myocarditis Iceberg – Infonomena – January 27, 2023
Where Did All the Workers Go? – Infonomena – January 19, 2023
Who Really Wanted to Speed Remedies? – Infonomena – January 2, 2023
More Vaccine Doses, More Covid Infections – Infonomena – January 2, 2023
Double Down Hallucination – Infonomena – December 14, 2022
The One Million Lives Saved Claim – Infonomena – November 2, 2022
Who Needs Organic Chemistry? – Infonomena – October 10, 2022
Censoring Ourselves Into a Stone Age – Infonomena – September 27, 2022
CDC Whispers, “Retreat.” – Infonomena – August 16, 2022
New CDC Documents Amplify the Social Dilemma – AEIdeas – August 5, 2022
Free Novak Now! – Tennis all-timer Djokovic schools the world on Covid-19 – Infonomena – July 25, 2022
Social Media Malpractice – Infonomena – May 31, 2022
Dysinformation: How the exaflood caused an information sickness – Infonomena – May 13, 2022
How the war on ‘misinformation’ propelled the Covid cataclysm – RealClearMarkets – February 4, 2022
A Pandemic Pivot Point: The Counterintuitive Dynamics of Covid-19 – Entropy Economics – November 2021
As rationale for total vaccination sputters, censorship soars – RealClearMarkets – September 20, 2021
Big Tech and Big Finance Breed Hubris – The Wall Street Journal – July 6, 2021
Back to Work, Back to School, Back to the Future – Maximum Entropy – September 7, 2020
Viral speech and the virus: Information wars, part I – AEIdeas – June 2, 2020
Can telemedicine finally boost healthcare productivity? – AEIdeas – May 18, 2021
We built the Internet. Now make it bigger and better – AEIdeas – April 23, 2020
The info-tech solution to re-open the economy – Indianapolis Business Journal – April 10, 2020
The Internet vs. COVID-19 – AEIdeas – April 9, 2020
Information will be the key to defeating COVID-19 – AEIdeas – March 25, 2020
A Plan for Anti-Viral Victory – Maximum Entropy – March 20, 2020

Tech Research:

Securing the Digital Frontier: Policies to Encourage Digital Privacy, Data Security, and Open-Ended Innovation – American Enterprise Institute – May 2019
Startups and the Remaking of the Firm: From Whirligig to Flying Machine – High Alpha – February 2019
How Cloud Computing Enables Modern Manufacturing – American Enterprise Institute & ITIF – June 2017
The Coming Productivity Boom: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information – Technology CEO Council – March 2017
Imagining the 5G Wireless Future: Apps, Devices, Networks, Spectrum – by Bret Swanson – Entropy Economics – November 2016
Moore’s Law at 50: The Performance and Prospects of the Exponential Economy – by Bret Swanson – American Enterprise Institute – November 2015; and original version Moore’s Law: A 50th Anniversary Assessment – by Bret Swanson – Entropy Economics – April 14, 2015; accompanying Audio of the Conference Call and Presentation Slides
Internet Traffic as a Basic Measure of Broadband Health – by Bret Swanson – American Enterprise Institute – November 20, 2014
How the Net Works: A Brief History of Internet Interconnection – by Bret Swanson – January 21, 2014 – accompanying slides
Digital Dynamism: Competition in the Internet Ecosystem – by Bret Swanson – November 12, 2013
Hyperconnected: The New Network Map – a visual depiction of network innovation – November 12, 2013
Soft Power: Zero to 60 Billion in Four Years – Apps, the new American software industry – by Bret Swanson, December 5, 2012
Can Spectrum Policy Match the Speed of Mobile Expansion? – by Bret Swanson, July 27, 2012
Into the Exacloud – what Mobile, Video, Big Data, and Cloud mean for network traffic – by Bret Swanson, November 21, 2011
Net Neutrality, Investment, and Jobs: Assessing the Potential Impact on the Broadband Ecosystem – by Charles M. Davidson and Bret T. Swanson, Advanced Communications Law and Policy Institute, New York Law School, June 16, 2010
Bandwidth Boom: Measuring U.S. Communications Capacity from 2000 to 2008 – by Bret Swanson, Entropy Economics, June 24, 2009 (Executive Summary)
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Special Reports

The App-ification of Medicine: A Four-Faceted Information Revolution in Health – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – September 2015
The Immersive Internet: Public Policy in a Hundred-Billion Device World – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – September 2015

Economic Research:

Startups and the Remaking of the Firm: From Whirligig to Flying Machine – High Alpha – February 2019
The Coming Productivity Boom: Transforming the Physical Economy with Information – Technology CEO Council – March 2017
Great Stagnation? Or Technology Renaissance? – presentation at the Purdue University “Dawn or Doom 2” technology conference – by Bret Swanson – September 25, 2015
Human Capital, Uncertainty, and Growth in the 21st Century – a review (and survey of other critiques) of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital – by Bret Swanson – May 15, 2014
The Growth Agenda: Launching the Next American Boom – presentation to the U.S. Chamber Foundation in Dallas, Texas – by Bret Swanson – March 14, 2014

Tech Notes:

Silicon Valley’s Dangerous Political Game – by Bret Swanson – July 10, 2017
Life After Television – a survey of the rapidly changing video market – by Bret Swanson – August 20, 2014
What Would Net Neutrality Mean for U.S. Jobs? – by Bret Swanson – February 5, 2010
Two-Year Study Finds Fast Changing Web Architectures – by Bret Swanson – October 20, 2009
Leviathan Spam – by Bret Swanson – A whimsical take on “Net Neutrality” – September 23, 2009
Net Stimulus: Broadband Bridges . . . But To Where? – by Bret Swanson, Entropy Economics, March 31, 2009
Rapid Internet Traffic Growth Continues in U.S. and Around Globe – by Bret Swanson, Entropy Economics, March 5, 2009

Testimony and Comments:

Reply Comments in the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Proceeding – by Bret Swanson – August 30, 2017
Reply Comments in the FCC’s Open Internet Proceeding – by Bret Swanson – September 15, 2014
Comments in the FCC’s Open Internet Proceeding – by Bret Swanson – July 15, 2014
Reply Comments on the FCC’s IP Transition Proceeding – by Bret Swanson – February 25, 2013
Reply Comments to the FCC’s Open Internet Further Inquiry – by Bret Swanson – November 4, 2010
Reply Comments in the FCC Matter of ‘Preserving the Open Internet’ – by Bret Swanson – April 26, 2010
Net Neutrality’s Impact on Internet Innovation – prepared for the New York City Council – by Bret Swanson – November 20, 2009

Columns, Blogs, and Articles:

Communications:

Record Satellite Launches in 2023 – Infonomena – January 5, 2024
Racing Back to Space: India lands on the moon, Starlink rockets ahead – Infonomena – August 23, 2023
The Next Chapter for Wireless Spectrum – Infonomena – April 22, 2023
New data shows why U.S Internet shined during pandemic – AEIdeas – February 23, 2022
The FAA’s embarrassing attempt to put 5G on ‘airplane mode’ – AEIdeas – December 21, 2021
The Pentagon’s public Internet fantasy – AEIdeas – November 1, 2021
Extending our many broadband victories – AEIdeas – August 27, 2021
California chases away citizens, startups, and, perhaps, the internet industry it invented – AEIdeas – April 20, 2021
Record $80.9 billion spectrum auction points to promise of 5G – AEIdeas – February 8, 2021
Digital Duplicity: Social media purge reveals true goal of ‘net neutrality’ – RealClearMarkets – January 15, 2021
5G as a Platform for Economic Transformation – video presentation – opening of Indiana 5G Zone – December 9, 2020
5G momentum highlights surprisingly successful spectrum policy – AEIdeas – October 22, 2020
We built the Internet. Now make it bigger and better. – AEIdeas – April 23, 2020.
5G wireless and the prospects for higher-revving productivity – AEIdeas – February 11, 2020
Climbing technology’s wall of worry in 2020 and beyond: Part I – AEIdeas – January 14, 2020
5G Spectrum Pipeline in U.S. – chart – Entropy Economics – December 2019
Spectrum Big Bang points to promise of 5G wireless – AEIdeas – September 26, 2019
Faster! No, wait, slower! An update on broadband speeds – AEIdeas – August 30, 2019
5G Wireless Will Improve Our Understanding of the World – Including the Weather – Forbes – June 17, 2019
Filling the mid-band spectrum gap to sustain 5G momentum – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – April 24, 2019
The never-ending neutrality pageant – AEIdeas – April 11, 2019
Ajit Pai didn’t break the Internet – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – December 17, 2018
Don’t Spam the Text Messengers, FCC Says – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – December 7, 2018
California’s Net Neutrality Law Is A Bad Idea – It’s Also Illegal – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – October 8, 2018
Indiana, center of the 5G wireless world – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – September 20, 2018
For Google, Apple, ISPs, Information Abundance Is Biggest Challenge – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – February 27, 2018
As Netflix Surges, Burger King Cooks Up Net Neutrality ‘Whopper’ – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – January 26, 2018
After FCC Vote, Internet Will Be Bigger And Better Than Ever – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – December 21, 2017
Silicon Valley’s Dangerous Political Game – by Bret Swanson – EE Tech Note – July 10, 2017
Ajit Pai’s Welcome Return to Internet Innovation – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – April 27, 2017
How the Internet Will Become the ‘Exanet’ – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – February 28, 2017
5G Wireless Is a Platform for Economic Revival – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – November 6, 2016
The Netflix neutrality farce – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – April 8, 2016
Will Wireless Escape the FCC’s Redefinition? – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – December 4, 2015
Tom Wheeler Tries to Rewrite Internet History – by Bret Swanson – RealClearMarkets – June 4, 2015
The FCC votes to regulate a booming Internet – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – February 26, 2015
The FCC’s Orwellian Internet Policy – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – February 25, 2015
How to Keep the Mobile Boom Booming – by Bret Swanson – Multichannel News – February 18, 2015
The Last Refuge of Internet Regulators: The Theory of the ‘Terminating Access Monopoly’ – by Bret Swanson – Maximum Entropy – January 23, 2015
Broadband facts: GON with the wind – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – January 15, 2015
Zero stars for zero understanding of ‘zero rating’ mobile Internet plans – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – January 9, 2015
The U.S. Leads the World in Broadband – by Bret Swanson – The Wall Street Journal – December 8, 2014
M-Lab: The Real Source of the Web Slowdown – by Bret Swanson – Maximum Entropy – November 5, 2014

Tastes great? Less filling? Title II ‘Lite’ is anything but – by Bret Swanson – Roll Call – October 8, 2014
Amazon, Twitch, and the Title II Threat to Web Video – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – September 5, 2014
A closer look: Netflix, Mozilla, and Title II – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily.com – July 31, 2014
Netflix And The Net Neutrality Promotional Vehicle – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – June 27, 2014
The Real ‘Slow Lane’ Threat To The Internet – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – June 2, 2014
Netflix Wants The Internet’s Benefits Without Its Costs – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – March 27, 2014
How To Get Broadband On Planes – And Everywhere Else – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – December 16, 2013
Wireless Spectrum: Verizon, AT&T Should Stay In The Auction – by Bret Swanson – San Jose Mercury News – November 13, 2013

U.S. Share of Internet Traffic Grows – by Bret Swanson – Maximum Entropy – October 10, 2013
Why Broadband Consumers Are The Likely Winners In Verizon vs. FCC – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – September 25, 2013

The CBS-Time Warner Standoff Is A Sign of Market Dynamism, Not Market Failure – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas.org – August 13, 2013
CBS-Time Warner Cable Spat Shows (Once Again) Why ‘Net Neutrality’ Won’t Work – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – August 9, 2013
D.C.’s Special Interest Spectrum Policy – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – July 1, 2013
Verizon, ESPN, and the Future of Broadband – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – June 4, 2013
Timid FCC Wonders if Internet is Just a Fad – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – May 15, 2013
Less Spectrum Equals Slower, More Expensive Smartphones – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – May 9, 2013
Crashing the Broadband Party – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – February 12, 2013
Big Broadband’s Secret Plan to Deliver Wildly Popular Content and Apps to Happy Consumers – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – January 21, 2013
Broadband Bullfeathers – an analysis of U.S. and international broadband speeds – by Bret Swanson – December 14, 2012
‘Phone’ Is Just an App; Why Regulate It? – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – December 12, 2012
How to Slow the Wireless Juggernaut – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – June 4, 2012
New iPad Hungry for More Spectrum – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – March 14, 2012
Snatching Scarcity from the Jaws of Adundance – American.com – December 7, 2011
Damming the Digital River – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – September 19, 2011
Martian Bureaucrats Blind to Wireless Explosion – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – July 21, 2011
AT&T’s Exaflood Acquisition Good for Internet Growth – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – March 22, 2011
The Internet Survives, and Thrives, For Now – by Bret Swanson – RealClearMarkets – December 6, 2010
The Regulatory Threat to Web Video – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – May 17, 2010
How to Manage Internet Abundance – by Bret Swanson – CircleID – February 11, 2010
What Would Net Neutrality Mean for U.S. Jobs? – by Bret Swanson – February 5, 2010
Berkman Bungles Broadband Report – by Bret Swanson – RealClearMarkets – December 21, 2009
Two-Year Study Finds Fast Changing Web Architectures – by Bret Swanson – October 20, 2009
“Google and the Problem With ‘Net Neutrality'” – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2009
“Leviathan Spam” – by Bret Swanson – A whimsical take on “Net Neutrality” – September 23, 2009
“Can Microsoft Grasp the Internet Cloud?” – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, August 1, 2009
“Bandwidth Boom: Measuring U.S. Communications Capacity from 2000 to 2008” – by Bret Swanson, Entropy Economics, June 24, 2009 (Executive Summary)
“What the Exacloud Means for Tech Investors” – by Bret Swanson, presentation to the Applied Finance Group Research Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 11, 2009
Into the Exacloud: A New Paradigm for Web Cinema, Video Games, and Virtual Worlds – by Bret Swanson, Closing Keynote Address, Fiber-to-the-Home Council Asia-Pacific Conference ’09, Melbourne, Australia, May 20, 209
Net Stimulus: Broadband Bridges . . . But To Where? – by Bret Swanson, Entropy Economics, March 31, 2009
Rapid Internet Traffic Growth Continues in U.S. and Around Globe – by Bret Swanson, Entropy Economics, March 5, 2009
The Impact of the Exaflood – by Bret Swanson, presentation (watch video) at “Talk the Future 2008” conference in Vienna, Austria, September 5, 2008
“The Need for Speed” – by Bret Swanson, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, April 22, 2008
Unleashing the ‘Exaflood’ – by Bret Swanson and George Gilder, The Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2008
Estimating the Exaflood – The Impact of Video and Rich Media on the Internet – A ‘zettabyte’ by 2015? – by Bret Swanson and George Gilder, Discovery Institute, January 29, 2008
The Coming Exaflood – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2007
Let There Be Bandwidth – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2006
Unleash Broadband – by George Gilder and Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2002
For Cisco, It’s Change or Perish – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2001
The Broadband Economy Needs a Hero – by George Gilder and Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2001

Innovation:

A Midwestern State Plots Its Future: Economic strategy in the age of A.I., remote work, and re-shoring – Indianapolis Business Journal – November 24, 2023
A License to Compute Would Concentrate Computation and Speech, Stifling Both – Infonomena – June 10, 2023
Soft Power Squared: GPT and the Explosive Potential of A.I. Parallelism – Infonomena – April 18, 2023
How Generative Pre-training Will Transform the Economy – Infonomena – February 1, 2023
The Microchip Renaissance Needs More Than Money – The Hill – December 13, 2022
FTX and its Token Tokens – Infonomena – November 16, 2022
Musk’s Twitter: Blazing Open Trails – Infonomena – November 9, 2022
The $101,000,000 iPhone – Infonomena – September 28, 2022
Unleashing Technology that Works – Infonomena – July 12, 2022
Robots and Good Jobs on the Other Side of Covid-flation – Infonomena – June 7, 2022
Is there Web3 life beyond the crypto crash? – Infonomena – May 19, 2022
How the cloud powers Moore’s law, and more – AEIdeas – November 29, 2021
Trillion-dollar reversals and the prospects for tech dynamism – AEIdeas – May 5, 2021
California chases away citizens, startups, and, perhaps, the internet industry it invented – AEIdeas – April 20, 2021
China’s Flybys Should Spur American Microchip Revival – Medium – January 28, 2021
The $540,000 camera in your pocket – AEIdeas – November 17, 2020
Back to Work, Back to Work, Back to the Future – Maximum Entropy – September 7, 2020
We build the Internet. Now make it bigger and better. – AEIdeas – April 23, 2020
Information is the key to defeating COVID-19 – AEIdeas – March 25, 2020
Endpoints and antitrust: Can Washington predict the future of computing? – AEIdeas – February 3, 2020
Climbing technology’s wall of worry in 2020 and beyond: Part II – AEIdeas – January 14, 2020
Climbing technology’s wall of worry in 2020 and beyond: Part I – AEIdeas – January 14, 2020
Who needs agriculture and airplanes? The inhumanity of the anti-technology intelligentsia – AEIdeas – November 5, 2019
Rising productivity growth – blip or boom? – AEIdeas – September 12, 2019
Mobile broadband: A (still) under-appreciated economic miracle – AEIdeas – August 2, 2019
Apollo 11, mankind, and Moore’s law – AEIdeas – July 18, 2019
Apple’s App Store: monopoly or miracle? – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – May 28, 2019
About that “great stagnation” . . . Are we on the leading edge of a productivity revival? – AEIdeas – April 30, 2019
Big Tech and the science of social scaling – AEIdeas – March 27, 2019
Digital privacy and the massive health care opportunity – AEIdeas – March 1, 2019
Do rising venture capital investments signal rising economic dynamism ahead? – AEIdeas – December 6, 2018
Automation creates good jobs – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – November 3, 2018
The A12 chip: Estimating innovation with iPhone prices – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – October 25, 2018
This year’s Nobel for economics is a technology prize! – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – October 12, 2018
From notebooks to apps, data deepens the human drama of sports – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – October 2, 2018
The economic impact of mobile and cloud computing is greater than previously thought – AEIdeas – August 10, 2018
Beyond the A.I. Hype: The Reality of Intelligent Infrastructure and Human Augmentation – AEIdeas – April 25, 2018
How to measure the digital economy – and close the massive information gap – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – April 2, 2018
For Google, Apple, ISPs, Information Abundance Is Biggest Challenge – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – February 27, 2018
Tax Reform Can Boost Technology, Productivity, and, Yes, Your Wage – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – December 14, 2017
Does the Conventional Wisdom About Productivity Need to be Reconsidered? A Symposium – International Economy – Fall 2017
Don’t Be a Techno-Pessimist: Innovation Can Save the Day – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – August 22, 2017
The $12-million iPhone – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – August 4, 2017
Robots Will Save the Economy – by Bret Swanson and Michael Mandel – The Wall Street Journal – May 15, 2017
Ajit Pai’s Welcome Return to Internet Innovation – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – April 27, 2017
How the Internet Will Become the ‘Exanet’ – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – February 28, 2017
Trump, Silicon Valley’s tech titans share more goals than you think – by Bret Swanson – December 15, 2016
The Data-Driven Path to Economic Revival – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – September 28, 2016
Can the next 20 years match the telecosmic success of the previous 20? – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – August 31, 2016
Google, Go, Gelernter, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence – AEIdeas – March 24, 2016
Are the Pessimists Right About America’s Slow-Growth Future? – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – February 25, 2016
The FCC Threat to Health Care Innovation – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – November 30, 2015
Moore’s Law and the Productivity Paradox – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – November 25, 2015
Will the Apple-Samsung Battle Help Modernize Patent Law? – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – October 12, 2015
Permission Slips for Internet Innovation – by Bret Sawnson – The Wall Street Journal – August 15, 2015
The Immersive Internet Needs More Wireless Spectrum – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – June 3, 2015
Moore’s Law Exceeded Moore’s Expectations – by Bret Swanson – RealClearMarkets – April 16, 2015
Bits Trump Ink in Cyber Overhaul – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – February 5, 2015
Apple launches 29 quintillion transistors into the information economy – by Bret Swanson – February 2, 2015
Apple v. Samsung and the Road to Patent Sanity – by Bret Swanson – Computerworld – December 15, 2014
The $3 iPhone – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily.com – September 9, 2014
Apple v. Samsung Highlights Unfinished Work In The Patent Reformation – by Bret Swanson – September 2, 2014
More disruption, please – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily.com – August 20, 2014
The choice between Uber and uber-regulation – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily.com – June 11, 2014
The Bitcoin Breakthrough – Bret Swanson on the Heartland Institute podcast – June 2014 – we argue the chief innovation of Bitcoin is distributed digital trust and the replication (and improvement) of the bank ledger function in real time.
DirecTV and Don Draper in a ‘Life After Television’ world – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily.com – May 29, 2014
The Patent Drain On Economic Growth – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – April 18, 2014
How Much Would An iPhone Have Cost In 1991? – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily.com – February 3, 2014
“Are iPads and Google-bots the End of the Human Race?” – by Bret Swanson – TechnPolicyDaily.com – January 23, 2014

Building a Data-Driven Nation – by Bret Swanson – Business Horizon Quarterly – Winter 2014
Google, Grocers, and Gresham’s Law: The Patent Wars Go Global – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – November 4, 2013
Long Live the Risk Takers – essay in special issue on ‘Resilience’ – by Bret Swanson – Business Horizon Quarterly – Summer 2013
MPEG-LA Shows Need to Rebuild IP Foundations – by Bret Swanson – Forbes.com – April 30, 2013
The App-ification of Medicine – by Bret Swanson – Business Horizon Quarterly – Winter 2013
Ignorance, the Ultimate Asset – a new way to think about the economy based on information and entropy – by Bret Swanson – The American – January 24, 2013
Economic Abundance, Real and Imagined – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, October 8, 2012
Enterprising Cyberplaces – by Bret Swanson, Business Horizon Quarterly, Summer 2012
The Wonders of Wealth, the Path Out of Poverty – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, August 30, 2012
The Exponential Internet – by Bret Swanson, Business Horizon Quarterly, Spring 2012
Instagram Applications vs. Gramophone Regulations – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, April 23, 2012
Technology and the Growth Imperative – by Bret Swanson, American.com, March 26, 2012
Jobs: Steve vs. the Stimulus – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, January 27, 2012
Apple and the Education-Information Chasm – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, January 20, 2012
Banning Risk Is Our Biggest Risk – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, August 30, 2011
The Education / Information Chasm – presentation to EduComm Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 15, 2011
Cloud Wars Baffle Simmering Cyber Lawyers – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, February 25, 2011
Tyler Cowen’s Techno Slump – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, January 27, 2011
Entrepreneurial Innovation and the Internet – by Bret Swanson, RealClearMarkets, March 12, 2010
The Web’s Regulatory Racket – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, September 17, 2009
Can Microsoft Grasp the Internet Cloud? – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, August 1, 2009
How Techno-Creativity Will Save Us – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, December 12, 2008
Obama Ran a Capitalist Campaign – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2008. WTOP radio interview discussion on the topic also available here. Another radio interview conducted with 1360 WMNY on The American Entrepreneur talk show, available here.
The Tech Comeback Is Real – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2003
Google: Our Savior? – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2003

Privacy / Security:

Can Silicon Valley disarm the tech policy boomerang? – AEIdeas – July 3, 2019
Securing the Digital Frontier: Policies to Encourage Digital Privacy, Data Security, and Open-Ended Innovation – American Enterprise Institute – May 2019
Perspectives on digital privacy from the FTC and DOJ – video of AEI event – April 3, 2019
Digital privacy and the massive health care opportunity – AEIdeas – March 1, 2019
A Discussion on Digital Privacy – C-SPAN – Progressive Policy Institute – January 28, 2019
Europe And California Get It Wrong: Technology Is The Solution To Digital Privacy – by Bret Swanson – Forbes – September 25, 2018
The business of digital privacy and security is going to be huge – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – September 4, 2018

Healthcare / Medicine / Bio:

Covid and the Golly Folly: How did the experts turn everything upside down? – Infonomena – September 15, 2023
Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly – The Wall Street Journal – July 8, 2023
Dr. Hotez’s Data Is Highly Flawed – Infonomena – June 25, 2023
Society of Actuaries Shows Continued Young Adult Mortality Spike – Infonomena – May 31, 2023
Japan Matches Germany’s 2022 Mortality Spike – Infonomena – April 10, 2023
Dr. Frieden’s Follies – Infonomena – March 20, 2023
Who Engineered the Virus? – Infonomena – March 10, 2023
Mortality Play: 2020 vs. 2021-22 – A global survey of excess demise – Infonomena – February 28, 2023
Dr. Fauci’s Brooklyn Bromides – Infonomena – February 9, 2023
A Narrative that’s Too Big to Fail – Infonomena – February 5, 2023
“I hope we don’t find out…this mRNA lingers in the body,” says Pfizer doctor – Infonomena – February 2, 2023
How Generative Pre-training Will Transform the Economy – Infonomena – February 1, 2023
The Myocarditis Iceberg – Infonomena – January 27, 2023
Where Did All the Workers Go? – Infonomena – January 19, 2023
Who Really Wanted to Speed Remedies? – Infonomena – January 2, 2023
More Vaccine Doses, More Covid Infections – Infonomena – January 2, 2023
Double Down Hallucination – Infonomna – December 14, 2022
The One Million Lives Saved Claim – Infonomena – November 2, 2022
Who Needs Organic Chemistry? – Infonomena – October 10, 2022
Censoring Ourselves Into a Stone Age – Infonomena – September 27, 2022
CDC Whispers, “Retreat.” – Infonomena – August 16, 2022
New CDC Documents Amplify the Social Dilemma – AEIdeas – August 5, 2022
Free Novak Now! – Tennis all-timer Djokovic schools the world on Covid-19 – Infonomena – July 25, 2022
How the war on ‘misinformation’ propelled the Covid cataclysm – RealClearMarkets – February 4, 2022
A Pandemic Pivot Point: The Counterintuitive Dynamics of Covid-19 – Entropy Economics – November 2021
As rationale for total vaccination sputters, censorship soars – RealClearMarkets – September 20, 2021
Can telemedicine finally boost healthcare productivity? – AEIdeas – May 18, 2021
The info-tech solution to re-open the economy – Indianapolis Business Journal – April 10, 2020
The Internet vs. COVID-19 – AEIdeas – April 9, 2020
Information will be the key to defeating COVID-19 – AEIdeas – March 25, 2020
A Plan for Anti-Viral Victory – Maximum Entropy – March 20, 2020
Digital privacy and the massive health care opportunity – AEIdeas – March 1, 2019
The FCC Threat to Health Care Innovation – by Bret Swanson – TechPolicyDaily – November 30, 2015
The App-ification of Medicine: A Four-Faceted Information Revolution in Health – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – September 2015

Free Speech / Disinformation:

Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly – The Wall Street Journal – July 8, 2023
A License to Compute Would Concentrate Computation and Speech, Stifling Both – Infonomena – June 10, 2023
Our Pseudocracy: Elites who aren’t elite and technocrats who aren’t technically competent want to save our democracy with censorship, secret science, more war, and ESG. Only a comprehensive reboot can save us. – Infonomena – May 15, 2023
Censors Target Internet Talkers with A.I. Truth Scores – Infonomena – February 22, 2023
How Generative Pre-training Will Transform the Economy – Infonomena – February 1, 2023
Twitter Files Reveal Depth of Covid Censorship – Infonomena – December 26, 2022
Musk’s Free Speech Quest – a Debate – Broadband Breakfast Live – November 23, 2022
Musk’s Twitter: Blazing Open Trails – Infonomena – November 9, 2022
Censoring Ourselves Into a Stone Age – Infonomena – September 27, 2022
Censorship at Scale – Infonomena – September 6, 2022
New CDC Documents Amplify the Social Dilemma – Infonomena – August 5, 2022
Social media malpractice: A reply to Caplan on ‘misinformation’ – Infonomena – May 31, 2022
Dysinformation: How the exaflood caused an information sickness – Infonomena – May 13, 2022
Twitter liberation, Netflix plunge mark new era for the Web – AEIdeas – April 26, 2022
Elon Musk drops knowledge bomb on information minefield – RealClearMarkets – April 7, 2022
How the war on ‘misinformation’ propelled the Covid cataclysm – RealClearMarkets – February 4, 2022
As rationale for total vaccination sputters, censorship soars – RealClearMarkets – September 20, 2021
Big Tech and Big Finance Breed Hubris – The Wall Street Journal – July 6, 2021
Clarence Thomas asks central questions on tech censorship – AEIdeas – April 6, 2021
Silberman’s anti-censorship warning – AEIdeas – March 25, 2021
Digital Duplicity: Social media purge reveals true goal of ‘net neutrality’ – RealClearMarkets – January 15, 2021
The Technology Solution to Hysterical Mythmaking – RealClearPolitics – December 10, 2020
Big Tech’s presumptuous monopoly on truth – AEIdeas – September 21, 2020
The Internet, Covid-19, and the Open Society – AEIdeas – August 10, 2020
The Gurri-Kuran dynamic: Information wars, part II – AEIdeas – June 10, 2020
Viral speech and the virus: Information wars, part I – AEIdeas – June 2, 2020
Climbing technology’s wall of worry in 2020 and beyond: Part II – AEIdeas – January 14, 2020
Facebook, free speech, and the Nth estate – AEIdeas – November 18, 2019
How information spurred a revolt of the public – and a reactionary elite – AEIdeas – August 15, 2019
Can Silicon Valley disarm the tech policy boomerang? – AEIdeas – July 3, 2019
Big Tech and the science of social scaling – AEIdeas – March 27, 2019
Deplatforming and disinformation will degrade our democracy – AEIdeas – January 15, 2019
Trolls, spoofs, and Hawaiian missiles: What’s real in a virtual world? – AEIdeas – January 18, 2018
Free Speech List

Global Economy:

A Midwestern State Plots Its Future: Economic strategy in the age of A.I., remote work, and re-shoring – Indianapolis Business Journal – November 24, 2023
The Microchip Renaissance Needs More Than Money – The Hill – December 13, 2022
FTX and its Token Tokens – Infonomena – November 16, 2022
Unleashing Technology that Works – Infonomena – July 12, 2022
Not-So-Stranded Assets: The economic and geopolitical poverty of ESG – Infonomena – June 14, 2022
Robots and Good Jobs on the Other Side of Covid-flation – Infonomena – June 7, 2022
Hard Industries, Hard Work, and Big Opportunities – FoxBusiness – February 12, 2022
China’s Flybys Should Spur American Microchip Revival – Medium – January 28, 2021
Rising productivity growth – blip or boom? – AEIdeas – September 12, 2019
Mobile broadband: A (still) under-appreciated economic miracle – AEIdeas – August 2, 2019
Do rising venture capital investments signal rising economic dynamism ahead? – AEIdeas – December 6, 2018
Automation creates good jobs – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – November 3, 2018
The economic impact of mobile and cloud computing is greater than previously thought – AEIdeas – August 10, 2018
How to measure the digital economy – and close the massive information gap – by Bret Swanson – AEIdeas – April 2, 2018
Are capital markets healthy? Some thoughts on corporate concentration and dwindling public firms – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – March 27, 2018
Tax Reform Can Boost Technology, Productivity, and, Yes, Your Wage – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – December 14, 2017
Does the Conventional Wisdom About Productivity Need to be Reconsidered? A Symposium – International Economy – Fall 2017
Don’t Be a Techno-Pessimist: Innovation Can Save the Day – by Bret Swanson – The Hill – August 22, 2017
Robots Will Save the Economy – by Bret Swanson and Michael Mandel – The Wall Street Journal – May 15, 2017
What’s behind the plummeting number of publicly traded U.S. firms? – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – July 15, 2016
Are the Pessimists Right About America’s Slow-Growth Future? – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – February 25, 2016
Long Live the Risk Takers – essay in special issue on ‘Resilience’ – by Bret Swanson – Business Horizon Quarterly – Summer 2013
Keep It Simple: A New Take On Regulation – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – Spring 2013
Zero GDP Reading Exposes Real Deficit: Economic Growth – by Bret Swanson – Forum for Innovation – February 1, 2013
Ignorance, the Ultimate Asset – a new way to think about the economy based on information and entropy – by Bret Swanson – The American – January 24, 2013
Elite Decadence, Economic Damage – a Fiscal Cliff postmortem, by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, January 7, 2013
Beyond the New Normal – by Bret Swanson, Business Horizon Quarterly, Fall 2012
The Growth Effect on Jobs – by Bret Swanson, Forum for Innovation, September 7, 2012
The Wonders of Wealth, the Path Out of Poverty – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, August 30, 2012
Reassessing the Financial Panic – More Evidence Implicating Mark-to-Mayhem – by Bret Swanson – Entropy Economics – January 31, 2012
The 12 Keynes of Christmas – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, December 24, 2011
What Is Growth? – by Bret Swanson, Business Horizon Quarterly, Fall 2011
The Growth Imperative – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, May 27, 2011
Meltdown, Rebound, and Beyond – by Bret Swanson, presentation to CFA Society of Indianapolis, April 21, 2009
Not So Flat After All – by Bret Swanson, Forbes.com, September 29, 2008
Breaking Metcalfe’s Law – by Bret Swanson, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, January 14, 2008
The Big Boom – by Bret Swanson, September 13, 2007

Monetary Policy:

Reassessing the Financial Panic – More Evidence Implicating Mark-to-Mayhem – by Bret Swanson – Entropy Economics – January 31, 2012
Geithner Is Exactly Wrong on China Trade – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2009
An End to Currency Manipulation – by Bret Swanson, Far Eastern Economic Review, March 26, 2008
Dereliction of the Dollar – by Bret Swanson, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, March 17, 2008
The Elephant in the Barrel – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2006
Money and the Middle Kingdom – by Bret Swanson, Gilder Technology Report, September 24, 2003

China:

Who Engineered the Virus? – Infonomena – March 10, 2023
Robots and Good Jobs on the Other Side of Covid-flation – Infonomena – June 7, 2022
Big Tech and Big Finance Breed Hubris – The Wall Street Journal – July 6, 2021
China’s Flybys Should Spur American Microchip Revival – Medium – January 28, 2021
The Internet is U.S/China’s new Dollar/Yuan – by Bret Swanson, RealClearMarkets, July 14, 2010
China Won’t Repeat Protectionist Path in Digital Realm – by Bret Swanson, CircleID, April 13, 2010
Geithner Is Exactly Wrong on China Trade – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2009. See related radio interview on Minneapolis am1500, aired February 5, 2009
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China – 1978-2008 – Three Decades of Decentralized Economic Growth – by Bret Swanson, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, September 3, 2008
An End to Currency Manipulation – by Bret Swanson, Far Eastern Economic Review, March 26, 2008
Breaking Metcalfe’s Law – by Bret Swanson, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, January 14, 2008
What’s behind the Chinese Boom? – by Bret Swanson, Gilder Technology Report, March 26, 2004
Money and the Middle Kingdom – by Bret Swanson, Gilder Technology Report, September 24, 2003

Energy:

Unleashing Technology that Works – Infonomena – July 12, 2022
Not-So-Stranded Assets: The economic and geopolitical poverty of ESG – Infonomena – June 14, 2022
Big Tech and Big Finance Breed Hubris – The Wall Street Journal – July 6, 2021
The Energy Market of 2030 – by Bret Swanson – short essay for The End of Carbon Fuels? – a symposium of 15 views on the energy market of 2030 – International Economy – Spring 2018
Energy industry shows how information technology can boost productivity – AEIdeas – March 15, 2018
The Elephant in the Barrel – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2006

Sports:

Free Novak Now! – Tennis all-timer Djokovic schools the world on Covid-19 – Infonomena – July 25, 2022
When Kingdoms Collide – Can Rory McIlroy overcome the Saudis and DOJ to unite golf’s future? – Infonomena – July 17, 2022
From notebooks to apps, data deepens the human drama of sports – by Bret Swanson – U.S. Chamber Foundation – October 2, 2018

Recent essays:

Our Pseudocracy: Elites who aren’t elite and technocrats who aren’t technically competent want to save our democracy with censorship, secret science, more war, and ESG. Only a comprehensive reboot can save us. – Infonomena – May 15, 2023

Video and Audio Archive:

Musk’s Free Speech Quest – a Debate – Broadband Breakfast Live – November 23, 2022
5G as a Platform for Economic Transformation – video presentation – opening of Indiana 5G Zone – December 9, 2020
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a post-Covid world. – AEI video webinar with venture capitalist and author of “Startup Communities” Brad Feld – July 22, 2020
Do we need anther Manhattan Project or Apollo Program to jumpstart R&D? – AEI video webinar discussing the future of R&D – July 8, 2020
Perspectives on digital privacy from the FTC and DOJ – AEI – April 3, 2019
A Discussion on Digital Privacy – C-SPAN – Progressive Policy Institute – January 28, 2019
Opportunity in the New Digital Economy – video of Kemp Forum event – October 25, 2017
Why tech pessimism is wrong . . . and Silicon Valley’s dangerous political game – AEI Banter podcast – September 8, 2017
The $12-mllion iPhone . . . and much more – High Tech Forum podcast with Richard Bennett – August 2017
Is the economy stuck in neutral? – Ricochet podcast with Jim Pethokoukis – July 2017
Mandel and Swanson on The Coming Productivity Boom – Macro Musings podcast with David Beckworth – June 2017
Can Robots Save the Economy? – Fox Business TV – May 17, 2017
The Future of Broadband, Net Neutrality, FCC – Capitol Forum event – December 16, 2016
The Information Gap, and the Coming Productivity Boom – Dawn or Doom ’16 – Purdue University – October 3-4, 2016 – preview of “The Coming Productivity Boom” report
5G and the Internet of Everything – Tech Policy Podcast – December 5, 2016
Great Stagnation, or Tech Renaissance? – Cyberspace Policy at Home and Abroad: Tech Policy in 2016 – video starts at 3:20:30 – AEI – January 28, 2016
Great Stagnation? Or Technology Renaissance? – Purdue University Dawn or Doom Conference – September 2015
Moore’s law and the future of technology – AEI Three Things — April 2015
The Case Against Net Neutrality – appearance on WSJ Live webcast – November 11, 2014
Tech Policy 2014: The Year Ahead – AEI Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy – January 17, 2014
Net Neutrality and the Internet’s future: Decoding the D.C. Circuit court’s decision – AEI Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy – Google+ Hangout – January 14, 2014
Broadband, Economic Growth, and the Implications for Spectrum Policy – AEI Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy – September 4, 2013