I like to say that there is two things that defined success in the tech business. The first is being lucky. The second is not mistaking luck for being smart. Larry Page thinks he is smart. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2014
The end of Network Neutrality
My friend, Robert X. Cringley, wrote an excellent blog post on Net Neutrality which you can read here. I have a few thoughts I would like to share about this topic. The concept of Net Neutrality simply put, is that the supplier of broadband cannot enter into a separate arrangement to provide better services for … Continue reading
How do I message thee? let me count the waze..
Traveling around the world as I do really exposes me to all the ways people message each other. I thought I would list some of those that I know, and actually have to use, since people have strong preferences – depending on age and residence.
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First Predictions for technology 2064: You won’t be using Google, you will be Google
Will we be living on the moon or in a cave? When I made my predictions for the computer industry for 2014, a number readers suggested that I make predictions for 2064. With some anxiety, I decided to sign up for that and started by stepping back into 1964 and asking myself what I would have … Continue reading
Google inside your Nest: They will know when you are naughty or nice.
I was just thinking about how Google could use Nest which it just acquired to understand more about our living habits. Continue reading
Comment on the Comments on my Forecast for the Computer Industry 2014
I got a number of comments on my recent post “Predictions for the Computer Industry for 2014.” I thought the best way to respond to them was to write another post to comment on the comments so to speak. Continue reading
Why Corporate Boards Suck
I thought I would take a break in forecasting the future, and talk about a very real problem in the present, why Corporate Board of Directors suck. In particular, I am going to focus on the Boards of large public companies. Continue reading
The future of technology in 2014, a 1964 perspective
I just posted my top ten predictions for the computer industry for 2014. One reader suggested I give my predictions for 2064 after reading a link I posted on Isaac Asimov’s predictions for 2014 which were made in 1964. You can read what he had to say here. Asimov was very much on the mark but then, as a science fiction writer, it was his job to think about the future.
In thinking about the next fifty years, I found myself thinking back to 1964 when I was just 19 years old. I wondered what I would I have predicted back then about technology in the years 2014.
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10 Predictions for the Computer Industry for 2014
I decided that this year I would write up my own ten predictions. I should also say that as a technologist in my core, I often see things happening much earlier that they really happen. It is sort of the opposite of the sign on your cars side mirror which reads “objects may appear further away then they actually are”. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 