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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 the FCC chairman at the…
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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.
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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 the norm in the south.…
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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 it, the Information Highway. At…
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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 thinking about this again today…
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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 lot of people know (what…
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War on Cancer: Mission Not Accomplished
On January 3, 2006 Garry Betty, the CEO of Earthlink died from adrenal cortical cancer at the age of 49, this announcement hit me hard as does every announcement of the death of someone in the prime of their life from cancer. It was in the state of the union speech of Richard Nixon that the War on Cancer was…
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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 is over. The PC market…
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The notebook computer is the new RV
My wife and I travel about three months a year. We are members of Exclusive Resorts which is company controlled by Steve Case former CEO of AOL. My main reason for joining was to sunny places to go to in the winter where I could be assured of comfort and connectivity. There are added benefits such as apartments New York,…
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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) which I think is a…
Pensieri e esperienze di un’anatra selvaggia di ottanta e un anni.
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