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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
COVID-19:
- 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
- Can telemedicine finally boost healthcare productivity? – AEIdeas – May 18, 2021
- Back to Work, Back to School, Back to the Future – Maximum Entropy – September 7, 2020
- The Internet, Covid-19, and the Open Society – AEIdeas – August 10, 2020
- Viral speech and the virus: Information wars, part I – AEIdeas – June 2, 2020
- 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 is 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)
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:
- 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
Artificial Intelligence, etc:
- 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
Innovation:
- 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:
- 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
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
