or Shakespeare isn't Anonymous In light of the fun, interesting, and I think, utterly fictional Anonymous, I thought I would repost this item from my now defunct Future of Information Work blog. Be challenged, but enjoy. 4/7/2008 2:45:59 PM Shakespeare Wars I have finally finished Rosenbaum's Shakespeare Wars. I love Shakespeare, but why include comments on … [Read more...] about Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be
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Remembering Steve Jobs #stevejobs
Remembering Steve Jobs...I was a staunch advocate of Tandy TRS-DOS over CPM. I owned a big silver and grey box that I personally updated from 32KB of memory to 48KB and replaced the slow external cassette tape player with two 184KB floppy disk drives. And then I met Macintosh. 128KB of Ram and two 400KB disk drives. For the next decade, I worked closely with Apple as one of the … [Read more...] about Remembering Steve Jobs #stevejobs
Last-Minute Shopping Guide: Ten Back to College Tech Essentials (2022 Update)
Last-Minute Shopping Guide: Ten Back to College Tech Essentials (2022 Update) Perhaps you already dropped your college student off at school, perhaps you are about to—or after a few weeks, you feel a need to send along a care package. Regardless of the cause, an infusion of the right technology can boost performance, improve confidence, or improve safety. And technology is … [Read more...] about Last-Minute Shopping Guide: Ten Back to College Tech Essentials (2022 Update)
The HP TouchPad, an Epitaph
I was supposed to write a review of the HP TouchPad for Tablet PC, but like so many others, I am not writing a review, but an epitaph. HP’s decision on August 18, 2011, to cease production of the Hp TouchPad as well as other WebOS devices leaves WebOS in limbo, though HP may try to recoup some of its investment by selling WebOS to another company. This is as much a strategic … [Read more...] about The HP TouchPad, an Epitaph
The Problem with Prediction: How to View Santa Cruz Crime Prevention Software
ABC ran a story about Santa Cruz, CA using software to help identify areas where crime may take place ( see Santa Cruz Police Using Computer Program to Predict, Prevent Crime). This kind of prediction is very different from what futurist do because it is constrained in both time and place. Those constraints are why it works. Those constraints are also the reason that short term … [Read more...] about The Problem with Prediction: How to View Santa Cruz Crime Prevention Software