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
Category Archives: Avram’s Past
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
Avram Miller, what are you doing these days?
This is going to be a difficult blog post to write. Normally, I write about things I understand pretty well – such as the present, past and future of technology. Sometimes, I write about subjects where I have strong opinions such as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or our the dysfunctional USA government. Often, I write about … Continue reading
The Next Wave of Computing is Rising
I wrote a series of posts awhile back which I called “The Resurrection of Wintel.” Here is the first and here is the second. I described a series of changes that affected the previous leadership of the computer industry by Intel and Microsoft. I explained that I did not believe that the current wave … Continue reading
Slow day on the blogosphere
It is the labor day weekend and I am feeling kind of lazy. It is very warm in Sonoma and it is time to get back in the pool. I had expected to be curled up with my iPad watching the bombing in Syria but Obama pulled a fast one. He has now not … Continue reading
Will the Killer App of the Internet Get Killed
Sometime around 1993, I gave a keynote speech about the Internet to the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas (where else?). There I stated that the killer App for the Internet would be Advertising. I guess I was right. The internet has not only been fueled by advertising revenues but it has challenged the … Continue reading
I guess I lost my ability to create great sound bites or did I?
Last week I was interviewed by a reporter at the New York Times, Nick Wingfield, for an article on the decline of the PC Industry. In the past, I was pretty good at coming up with sound bites and was often quoted by newspapers like the New York Times and magazines like Forbes. I must … Continue reading
American Express: The first Social Network?
I am in Copenhagen now and remembering my first visit to this city. I like to think about that time. After all, it was 1966 and I was just 21 years old. had moved to study music in Paris in the fall of 1965, and to try to get over my broken heart. Neither of … Continue reading
The Mouse that Roared: Doug Engelbart
A lot of people are writing about Doug Engelbart one of the true pioneers of computer technology. Many of them are recounting their interactions and friendships. I only met him once. It was about 1967 or 1968 and I was around 22 years old and working with Joe Kamiya at the Langley Porter Institute (UC Medical Center) doing the first work in brain wave bio feedback. Continue reading
Alta Vista RIP
Evidently, Yahoo will close down Alta Vista on July 8th, the Internet search company it acquired in 2003. This is the second time Yahoo has killed Alta Vista. Let me explain.
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Two Thirds Done 