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Should The Tech Giants Be More Heavily Regulated?
An article by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “‘Any sufficiently advanced technology,’ the late Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote in…
April 30, 2018
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GDPR And The End Of The Internet’s Grand Bargain
An article by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “In May the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, two…
April 9, 2018
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Trump’s Census Policy Could Boomerang And Hurt Red States As Well As Blue States
A blog post by Robert Shapiro, senior policy fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy: “Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision this week to ‘reinstate’ a question…
March 30, 2018
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announce New Offerings For AI Usage Across Business Functions To Drive Outcomes-AT&T Inc.
The senior industry and innovation fellow at Georgetown University, Larry Downes said, “On one hand, the government is saying this is the Old World and AT&T Time Warner is…
March 22, 2018
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A Media Giant In The Balance: AT&T Antitrust Trial Kicks Off
“On one hand, the government is saying this is the Old World and AT&T Time Warner is saying this is the New World,” said Larry Downes, senior industry and innovation fellow…
March 19, 2018
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Can Tech Fix Its Own Future?
An op-ed by Larry Downes, project director: “Is technology-based innovation, long seen as our best hope for improving quality of life, developing sustainable energy sources and…
March 1, 2018
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How More Regulation For U.S. Tech Could Backfire
An article from Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over…
February 9, 2018
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As Trial Approaches, Here are 5 Arguments For and Against a AT&T-Time Warner Merger
In some ways, legacy companies are the weakest competitors, said Larry Downes, a researcher at Georgetown University who studies the intersection of technology and public policy.…
January 17, 2018
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Finding Your Company’s Second Act
An article by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “In July 2016 a pandemic broke out. Tiny monsters known as Pokémon suddenly appeared all…
January 1, 2018
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Where Were Netflix And Google In The Net-Neutrality Fight?
“From [these companies’] standpoint, it doesn’t really matter who’s enforcing net neutrality, or if there’s net neutrality at all—they don’t need it,” Larry,…
December 20, 2017