Contributors
Kevin Werbach
Kevin Werbach is an independent technology analyst and consultant. He advises companies and writes on emerging technologies in communications, media and software. He also organizes the annual Supernova conference on the decentralization of software, communications, and media.
Werbach is the former Editor of Release 1.0, a renowned publication that explores trends related to the Internet, communications and computing. He also co-organized Esther Dyson's exclusive PC Forum conference for four years. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Wired, Slate, The Industry Standard, Harvard Law Review, Red Herring, and Business 2.0, among other publications.
Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Odlyzko is Director of the interdisciplinary Digital Technology Center, holds an ADC Professorship, and is an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota. Prior to assuming that position in 2001, he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that organization evolved and changed its name.
In addition to his technical research, Odlyzko has been writing extensively about electronic publishing, electronic commerce, and economics of data networks, and is the author of such widely cited papers as "Tragic loss or good riddance: The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals," "The bumpy road of electronic commerce," "Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet," "Content is not king," and "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet." He may be known best for an early debunking of the myth of Internet traffic doubling every three or four months. His papers can be found at his home page.
David Isenberg
David Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay, The Rise of the Stupid Network, was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut) and to publish The SMART Letter, an open-minded commentary on the communications revolution and its enemies.
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.
In addition to his consulting work, Shirky is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology -- how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. Shirky has written extensively about the internet since 1996.