Someone I very much respect sent me a link to an article on Ad Week which you can read here. It is definitely worth reading. In general I agree with what was written but I do want to point out that what we observe at any point in time is the sum of many waves … Continue reading
Author Archives: avram miller
It’s all about me
Just when I thought that blogging with the height of self indulgence I learn of a new capability. Using ning one can create their own social network. I just started my own social network. I called it AllAboutMe. Actually l find ning pretty interesting. What do you think? Continue reading
Cancer
Today , I heard our president talk about Iran. How I wish he would talk about cancer. I am sure more of our soldiers will die from cancer than roadside bombs made in Iran (which clearly is not a good thing either). The last several days I have been trying to help a dear friend … Continue reading
Our Goverment is selling our bodies, one gene at a time.
Actually, they are giving it away for a small fee. See Michael Crichton’s op-ed in the New York Times here. It is just an other awful example of how broken our IP laws are. Continue reading
I finally agree with Steve Job (sort of)
Those of you, who know me well, will know that I have not been a big fan of Steve Jobs. I first meet Steve at what might have been the first PC Forum’s (Ben Rosen was running it and Ester Dyson was helping him….I remember her then as a young girl in shorts). It was … Continue reading
Information Super Highway (Traffic Jam Ahead)
In the 90s, the Clinton/Gore adminstration spoke of building the Information Supper Highway. That is before we all realized that we had a highway, The Internet. In those days, I was busy building the on and off ramps by developing and investing in residential broadband. There is an interesting speech in 1996 by Reed Hundt … Continue reading
My first Mobile Phone
Avram’s first mobil phone Just to prove I have always been a head of my time check out the photo below. Remember this is 1946 folks. Continue reading
My life in quarter notes
In case you did not notice, today is my birthday. I am 62. On Jan. 27th, 1945 Auschwitz was liberated. It is hard for me to imagine that when I was born, Hitler was still leading Germany, the world had yet to see an atomic bomb and the computer was not yet born. Segregation was … Continue reading
The PC is it (Not)
The Interactive Device for the Information Age I was just reading an article I published in the New Telecom Quarterly in 1996. The paper is worth reading in my opinion. It has to do with the government’s role in creating what was at that time called the National Information Infrastructure or as Al Gore called … Continue reading
The information Furnace
Around 1994 I was speaking of the possibility of developing what I called the information furnace. I used the anology of central heating and said that the idea of having homes with multiple computers each having their own programs and disks was kind of like how the Brits heated their homes. I was … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 