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GAWD (Global Access Wireless Database)

Anil Dash

Aug 16, 2001 • 1 min read

GAWD (Global Access Wireless Database) is a search engine that allows you to find your nearest wireless access point.

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How Stevie Celebrates A Birthday

Though he’s one of the most gifted and important artists to have ever created popular music, Stevie’s legacy as a tireless and fearless advocate for justice may he even more powerful, and is too often overlooked. We should heed every word he says. On April 4th, 1968 at

Jan 17, 2022 • 3 min read

Tech I'm Watching in 2022

Each year, folks ask me for predictions about what's going to happen in tech in the coming year. Generally, what they're really asking is what I hope/expect is going to happen to the five or six biggest companies in the tech industry. That matters, especially in the context of

Dec 23, 2021 • 4 min read

On "inventing NFTs" and how we don't have any good way to talk about tech

I've been blogging here for more than 20 years, and the only organizing principle behind what I write here, if anything, is a fascination about how we make culture, and especially how we make culture around, and with, technology. Nothing has exemplified the complexity of that conversation more than my

Nov 14, 2021 • 7 min read

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