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
Category Archives: about business
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
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
Is user created content the next CB Radio
Check wikipedia for an interesting history of Citizen Band radio. It was an amazing phenomenon in which consumers chatted with each other. Even “chat rooms” developed. But it was not the CB radio but the cellular phone that survived and transformed all our lives (about a billion cell phones are sold a year). Now a … Continue reading
The End of the PC Era
We are entering the fourth era of computing. The fist was the main frame lead by IBM; the second was the mini computer lead by Digital Equipment (where I worked) and the third was the PC which was lead by the combination of Microsoft and Intel. I am afraid the run Intel and Microsoft had … Continue reading
Work those brains
An other important article about brain health can found on the New York Times here. I have two interests here: 1) making sure that I along with every other person that ages, can maintain our brain function and 2) it is major business opportunity. I am an advisor and small investor in Posit Science (www.positscience.com) … Continue reading
Andy Grove by Richard Tedlow
I read this book with great excitement but also a lot of mixed emotions. After all, I spent 15 years (1984-1999) working one heart beat away from Andy (I worked directly for Les Vadasz who like Andy was not really a founder of Intel but was there from day one and actually had badge … Continue reading
Smart Grid (benifit of BPL)
For the las four and a half years I have been on the board (and very active with) an amazing company called Current Technology Group. We use the same distribution system that brings electricity into your home to provided broadband services. Recently we entered into a business relationship with TXU (a major power utility) to provided … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 