Technometria By Phil Windley I build things; I write code; I void warranties 57 issues Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Technometria will receive your email address.
#54 May 30, 2022 Twenty Years of Blogging; Technometria - Issue #54 – Blogging has been good to me. Blogging has been good for me.
#53 May 19, 2022 Using a Theory of Justice to Build a Better Web3; Technometria - Issue #53 – Building a better internet won't happen by chance or simply maximizing freedom. We have to build syst
#52 May 9, 2022 Decentralizing Agendas and Decisions; Technometria - Issue #52 – Allowing groups to self-organize, set their own agendas, and decide without central guidance or plann
#51 Apr 27, 2022 Is an Apple Watch Enough? ; Technometria - Issue #51 – If you're like me, your smartphone has worked its tentacles into dozens, even hundreds, of areas in y
#50 Apr 20, 2022 We Need a Self-Sovereign Model for IoT; Technometria - Issue #50 – The Internet of Things is more like the CompuServe of Things. We need a new, self-sovereign model to
#49 Apr 14, 2022 John Oliver on Surveillance Capitalism; Technometria - Issue #49 – John Oliver's Last Week Tonight took on data brokers and surveillance capitalism in a recent show and
#48 Apr 6, 2022 Playing with LoraWan and Helium; Technometria - Issue #48 – Large-scale IoT deployments are made harder by connectivity issues. LoRaWAN, and the Helium network,
#47 Mar 24, 2022 PKI and Censorship; Technometria - Issue #47 – PKI has created a global trust framework for the web. But the war in Ukraine has shone a light on its
#46 Mar 15, 2022 Are Transactional Relationships Enough? Technometria - Issue #46 – Our online relationships are almost all transactional. A purely transaction digital life can't feel a
#45 Mar 9, 2022 Provisional Authenticity and Functional Privacy; Technometria - Issue #45 – Provisional authenticity and confidentiality can help us manage the trade offs between privacy and au
#44 Mar 1, 2022 Privacy, Authenticity, and Confidentiality; Technometria - Issue #44 – Authenticity and privacy are usually traded off against each other. Too often we opt for authenticity
#43 Feb 23, 2022 What is Privacy?; Technometria - Issue #43 – With privacy, we're almost never dealing with absolutes. Absolute digital privacy can be achieved by
#42 Feb 16, 2022 An Identity Metasystem >> A Giant Identity DAO; Technometria - Issue #42 – Rather than being a DAO, the world is a gigantic metasystem that provides numerous tacit capabilities
#41 Feb 8, 2022 Framing and Self-Sovereignty in Web3; Technometria - Issue #41 – Self-sovereign identity is foundational to Web3 because it is the means for framing ourselves in the
#40 Feb 2, 2022 Web3: Self-Sovereign Authority and Self-Certifying Protocols; Technometria - Issue #40 – Self-sovereign authority enabled by self-certifying protocols gives us a mechanism for creating a dig
#39 Jan 27, 2022 A Defacto National ID from ID.me; Technometria - Issue #39 – Last week's newsletter reported ID.me's claim that they were not doing 1:many facial recognition. Tur
#38 Jan 20, 2022 IRS Using Facial Scanning; Technometria - Issue #38 – The IRS will use ID.me's authentication and identity proofing service exclusively starting sometime t