This is a theme I’ve certainly written about before; it is in fact, the theme that started this blog — the idea that the expansion of stuff through communications technology can lead to a reduction in the very benefits meant to be yielded by the expansion in the first place. CNN’s insistence upon providing round-the-clock speculation about the missing Malaysian airliner ...
In case you missed it, OWS co-founder, now Google software engineer, Justine Tunney is responsible for a petition calling for a coup d’etat that would hand over administrative authority of the United States to the tech industry and appoint Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt as CEO of America. Whether Tunney is trying to be amusing, or she’s deranged, or she’s ...
So, if your teenager turns out to be a tech savant who builds an app that ranks in the top ten on iTunes, are you going to let him drop out of school to become an entrepreneur? About fifteen years ago, when my eldest was just starting Kindergarten, I sat with my friend the political operative and made some predictions ...
some tech thing is a new weekly roundup of tech-related stories you might have missed or even wished you missed. Co-hosted by David Newhoff and Sandy Davis. Take a listen and let me/us know what you think. In this episode: Popcorn Time; a new speed-reading technology; not so much with the hoverboard; Pono; smartphone smells. ...
Here’s the latest java jive: Green Mountain Coffee manufactures the Keurig, single-cup coffeemaker, and last week the company made the announcement that it would use a DRM-like technology to prevent customers who’ve bought their machines from using any K-Cups other than the Green Mountain brand. We all recognize this as the personal printer business model — make the machine pretty ...
