Figure 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Trends, styles, customs, and governments come and go. Few things remain constant. Eating, drinking, housing, Maslow-type things remain constant. But the next two levels up are the ones that ...
This isn’t the first—this is the last back page I’ll write this year, unless I decide to write one more. But is being first really so important? Well, if you’re really first, that is, if ...
When I start up my 1.86 MHz XP-pro based HP laptop WS computer which I’ve been using for over two years and sort of gotten comfortable (albeit not satisfied) with, it’s a slow process. Checking ...
Announcing… Almost everybody in the industry knows what announcements are going to be made before they are actually made. They may not know in exact detail all the time but we generally have a pretty ...
Having spent several days amounting to weeks in various conferences in September around the world, and then reading about them on the web I realize that the bloggers and “news” sites are all frustrated wannabe ...
Jon wasn’t the only one to play with time-sharing computers; Bill Gates cut his teeth on them, too. When I was a pup first playing with computers, the machines we had to play with were ...
At IBC this year, we learned what is in store for TV in the coming years. What great surprises await us in TV consumer land? Check this out: • Digital cinema: It may actually happen, ...
I remember when PDAs first hit the scene and how the very very smart VCs stopped investing in PC companies because “Pocket computers” were going to kill the PC. They were idiots, of course, but ...
By now you should have seen and studied Kathleen Maher’s Practicality Gap thesis. There is another chart that is interesting to examine, the Information Curve. It’s a phenomenon that a company goes through as it ...
One of the things you learn quickly in the computer infomation business is that you are not in control, you are at best a laboratory rat running the maze in search of cheese or your ...
Who wants to sit in front of a computer writing crap like this, or worse yet reading it, when there’s a beautiful blue sky over our beautiful bay that’s filled with beautiful people on their ...
It was really hard not to write an editorial about the iPhone. We heard (from the San Jose Mercury News) that Hallmark is going to lobby the U.S. Congress to declare June 29 iDay. In ...
