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Avram's Past / Technology

How I got the iPad right in 1994 but was wrong about the Information Furnace

Posted on January 9, 2012 by avram miller • Leave a comment

Now before you think this post is all about how insightful I was, and I was, it is really about how things turned out differently than I thought and wanted. It really is about a failure to implement a vision and an exploration of the possibility that things could have ended up differently.

In that very same article (again 1994), I coined the term i-pad (see the Article). Sixteen years later, Apple announced the iPad on Jan. 27th, 2010. Coincidentally, it happened to be my 65th birthday. Continue reading →

Avram's Past / Technology

Rotterdam 1969-1974: The Thoraxcenter

Posted on December 28, 2011 by avram miller • 1 Comment

Towards the end of 1968, I accepted a position at the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam. My task was to create and run the computer dept. It was actually two depts. One was part of the medical school at Erasmus University and the other was part of the Dijkzigt University Medical Center. Accepting the position was both … Continue reading →

Avram's Past

Promise we make to our future selves

Posted on December 23, 2011 by avram miller • 2 Comments

We make trade offs all the time between what we would want now and what we will want later. Human beings have a pretty good ability to project into the future. But I am also interested in the relationship and obligation of our future self to who were are now and what that means for our future self. Continue reading →

Political Views

Obama, I am willing to run as your Vice President but only if you listen

Posted on December 7, 2011 by avram miller • 4 Comments

Dear Barack, the person that I wish would be come president is the man I voted for in 2008, you. But you turned out not to be the person I thought you were. Some how you thought you could play the political game and win. You thought you were a giant but you even a … Continue reading →

Technology

These are the good old days for Apple and not just because Jobs has passed

Posted on November 27, 2011 by avram miller • 1 Comment

Companies like products, have life cycles. Apple is very unusual because it was able to reinvent itself. In particular, Apple went from being a niche PC player with a relatively small market share to the leader in revolutionizing music (iPod), the cell phone (iPhone) and creating and leading the tablet market (iPad). But each of … Continue reading →

Technology / The Post PC Period

Do I really need to travel with seven devices

Posted on November 20, 2011 by avram miller • 5 Comments

This is nuts. Look what I am traveling with: 1)Macbook Air, 2) iPad, 3) Kindle Fire, 4)Kindle, 5), iPhone , 6) iPod Touch and 7) AppleTV. In addition I carry various thumb drives, a digital camera and wear a flitbit. And guess what? They all do different things well. Continue reading →

Business Managment / Technology / The Post PC Period

Steve Jobs Bio: A review sort

Posted on November 6, 2011 by avram miller • 2 Comments

I just finished Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs. I would say it is informative but not insightful. For tech junkies, especially of the Apple genre, the book has detailed information about the history of Apple and especially how product and business decisions were made. This history is presented in a clear and factual manor. … Continue reading →

Avram's Past

Avram, the Merchant Seaman

Posted on November 4, 2011 by avram miller • 5 Comments

Reading the Steve Jobs bio made me want to share a bit more about my past just in case Walter Isaacson does not write my bio. Continue reading →

Government / Political Views

The Republican Nominee was not on the stage at the debate

Posted on October 19, 2011 by avram miller • Leave a comment

The next president of the United States could well be a republican but it will not be any of the clowns we have been seeing at the republican debates. Continue reading →

Two Thirds Done

Thoughts and experiences of an eighty one year old Wild Duck.