When I was a young teen (in reality because I am still a young teen in my mind), the number of keys you had said something about your status. Because of that, we kids wore big key chains with all kinds of keys. I think for many of us and certainly for me, the keys … Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
You know you are old when your greatest contribution to the future is documenting the past
While I am still very much interested in the future, I have come to realize that I know a lot more about the past particularly with respect to technology. After all I was working with computer before most of the people that use them were born. For the last few years I have been working … Continue reading
Happy Birthday CD
Twenty five years ago, the CD was born and the digital world of consumer media was born. Wow so much has happened since then. And the poor CD has seen better days. Happy birthday CD! Continue reading
Social Network becomes Social Net WORK
Being the curious guy that I am, I tend to sign up on a lot of web sites which I rarely use. I f course I tried out the social networking when the first came out. For instance, I jump on Friendster as soon as it launched since my friend, Ram was an investors. … Continue reading
Video and me
In 1966, when I was working on bio feedback (brain waves), my friend and colleague, Peter Harris, and I got the idea (actually I think it was Peter that had the idea) to see if we could put up letters on a screen. At that time we use an ASR-33 teletype as are main input … Continue reading
GPS and the collective unconciousness
I bought a portable GPS for our trip in Italy and France. The unit I got was the Nuvi 360. It can be used in a car, walking or on a bicycle and gives the appropriate directions for the type of transportation used. I bought a special memory card that has European information in it. Since … Continue reading
HomePlug Rules
I feel vindicated. Around 2002, I jointed the board of Current Group, the leader in Broadband over Powerline (the company provides both a set services and capabilities the will help power utilities mange the power grid which can provided dramatic improvements in reduction of both powerconsumption and green house gases emissions as well as a … Continue reading
Congestion ahead
I am having just been in NYC for a couple of board meetings (see I do work from time to time). Last week, I was in Tokyo which I am found of saying is like New York without the dirt and crime but that is not really fair. New York is like no other place in … Continue reading
The browser is the DOS of the Internet
Can it be true? Are the days of the browser numbered (I hope so). See the announcement by Adobe of Apollo. For me the browser is the DOS of the internet. It served a purpose but that purpose going away. There is no reason to have great web 2.0 applications sitting on top of an … 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
Two Thirds Done 