Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, former chair of the media reform group Free Press and a writer for Forbes, The Washington Post, and particularly Slate. He coined the term
"net neutrality", the concept that network operators should not block or favor content, and tirelessly communicated what is an arcane and technical topic of communication policy to the public. A topic that could have profound implications for how society develops. To the point that he has now been officially
appointed to the Federal Trade Commission to look into the issue. The Chronicle of Higher Education
has an article this week titled "Can Tim Wu save the internet?". A man of many interests, one of them is
old Honda Motorcycles. I decided to write to him pointing out this blog and he wrote back saying he's considering getting a Royal Enfield!
Wu writes, of vintage Hondas: "The Japanese take on British motorbike aesthetics is, to my mind, a cross of cultures unrivaled since Italians began mixing tomatoes with Chinese noodles."
ReplyDeleteI agree and I don't agree. I'm older than he is and I stick by my reaction at the time: They're what a British motorcycle would look like if you thought it should look more like something that made toast.
A Royal Enfield is closer to the ideal.