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Scott Fulton III

Since 1984, Scott has been a technology journalist, editor, author, and educator, having authored 17 books and way, way too many articles. Currently Scott also appears in The New Stack, and has recently appeared in Data Center Knowledge and FierceEnterpriseCommunications (for a time, a publication whose name and Scott's writing tendencies were well suited to each other). After considerable effort, Scott has learned to tweet, and hopes to apply these newfound brevity skills to other endeavors, such as grocery lists and shipping labels. As "D. F. Scott," during the late 1980s, Scott was a moderator for one of ZDNet's forerunner services, the Computer Shopper Information Exchange (C*SIX).

Latest Posts

The last stand: 5G West and 5G East vie to lead the second wave

The competition between nations for leadership in communications, has morphed into outright combat. If it's not a campaign the US can win, do we start drawing down the mission? Or can the hope of a second wave compel us to double down?

July 13, 2021 by Scott Fulton III in 5G

Quantum Key Distribution could seal the 5G rift with China, say engineers

There could be a present-day technological solution to the geopolitical dilemma that continues to hang over the communications industry. Its biggest obstacle may not be about methodology so much as ideology.

May 21, 2021 by Scott Fulton III in Quantum Computing

Rolling the dice on network slicing: Kubernetes sparks a rethink of 5G edge

The problem with distributed computing, as with distributed anything, is finding the appropriate system of governance. A management model for distributed computing may be emerging, though it might not be the one telcos were hoping for.

May 6, 2021 by Scott Fulton III in 5G

Quantum cost: The pitfalls of simplifying politics

There may be only one way a quantum computer could more accurately predict an election’s outcome than a professional poll: by knowing perhaps too much about you. Luckily, that’s a feasibility.

February 24, 2021 by Scott Fulton III in Quantum Computing

Could quantum computers fix political polls?

If a quantum system can predict the locations of air molecules in a hurricane, you’d think predicting election results would be a much simpler problem. A quantum physicist and a neuroscientist tell us otherwise.

February 23, 2021 by Scott Fulton III in Quantum Computing

Breeding neuromorphic networks for fun and profit: The new reproductive science

The most expedient way to produce the algorithms you need for a new class of computer that works like the brain, its engineers are discovering, is through a Darwinian exercise in natural selection.

December 7, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in AI & Robotics

Photon juggling: One big quantum processor from 100 little ones

One big pile, as Arlo Guthrie once disseminated from practical experience, isn’t really better than two little ones. Yet for a type of computer even less mindful of the law, all the little piles are already one big one.

November 15, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in Quantum Computing

Could 5G rescue the world’s economy from a coronavirus recession?

The case Nokia is making for empowering everyday enterprises — not just telcos — with 5G, is that their infrastructure will drive their productivity. Does that claim stand up under closer scrutiny? We asked economists.

October 29, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in 5G

The tech crisis that isn’t: China controls the world’s rare earth supply chains

Is it a crisis when a country holds a commanding lead in supplying a critical global market successfully manages to avoid disrupting that market amid a pandemic, and doesn’t have “United” in its name?

October 2, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in China

Aftershock: The long-term prognosis for a tech economy in trauma

In the short term, demand for IT services has increased since the pandemic’s onset. In a way, that’s the problem: The economy may not be healthy enough to sustain these services’ essential providers.

September 15, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in Tech Industry

COVID-19’s permanent impact on tech supply chains

It won’t be the tech economy you remember, with its Black Friday bargains, annual tech festivals, and star-studded rollout events. Are we ready to make our livings around what devices do come forth?

September 11, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in Tech Industry

5G rejiggered: The longer, rougher road ahead toward ubiquity

With the dawn of the small cell era apparently postponed, 5G stakeholders look to one of the newly ratified components of the 3GPP standard as a revenue stream: Say hello, telcos, to distributed cloud computing.

July 3, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in 5G

5G and Wi-Fi 6: Unlikely allies

Before the pandemic, telcos pondered how to sell 5G fixed wireless so convincingly that consumers would willingly ditch their Wi-Fi routers. Now that Wi-Fi is everyone’s best friend, that strategy has pivoted completely.

July 1, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in 5G

Point of care: Life-saving clinical trial technology at the crossroads

The fate of nations may depend upon the contributions of brave patients willing to risk their lives for treatments and vaccines. The technology that supports them, like most everything else, has been ravaged by the pandemic.

June 5, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in Digital Transformation

Will the pandemic map a new course for autonomous cars?

In a future where human contacts will need greater protection, the driverless car could end up giving people greater control than they had before.

May 4, 2020 by Scott Fulton III in Internet of Things