Marty Manley on economics, politics, technology, and culture

Archive for May, 2010

"Remember: Your Mother Owns a Bank"

The Jamkid and I caught Muhammad Yunus at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco this afternoon. Yunus is the Bangladeshi banker who received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microcredit loans to women. He also serves as the godfather of social enterpreneurship – the fashionable and laudable notion that many social causes are best organized [...]

Murses, Velcro, and Wipes: the Future of Taplet Computing

I dislike the potential social impact of Apple's vertically integrated, closed system business strategy (details here, here, and here), but I bought a 3G iPad the day it came out. It rocks.  The iPad is not your father's tablet computer — it is fast, lightweight, touch-based and runs applets. More like a taplet. You will own [...]

The First Rule of Holes

California is quickly learning the first rule of holes: when you find yourself at the bottom of one, stop digging. Banks, insurance companies, and pension funds buy government bonds because they are a very safe investment. Suppose they have to choose between the bonds of: a) Mexico. The world's newest narco-state, so beloved by its citizens [...]