by Mitchell Shapiro | Aug 16, 2015 | Blog
Though not as essential as drinking water, I consider both electricity and Internet access to be core infrastructure, with high fixed costs and providing general purpose support for the requirements of modern life. As the Internet expands to include networked “things”...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Aug 9, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the design and management of society’s core infrastructure systems (which I define broadly to include things like healthcare, education, housing and “money”) in an era marked by several important trends (for reasons suggested...
by Mitchell Shapiro | May 27, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
In a recent blog post I discussed a critique of today’s “smart meters” that focused on the technology’s shortcomings as a step toward creating a “smart grid” that reduces climate change risks and other negative impacts associated with our current carbon-intensive...
by Mitchell Shapiro | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
I recently read a paper entitled “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid” by Timothy Schoechle. Though the paper’s primary focus is the electricity industry, it seems a fitting topic for the Quello Center blog because it raises important questions about how best...
