This attention-getting video clip is a bit of futurist forecasting, with emphasis on demographic and information technology-driven changes. I just wonder how poor old human beings, with our ape brains, are going to cope. Just consider the havoc created by one technological advance: cheap, reliable, non-intrusive birth control, as in The Pill. Forty years later, […]
Read more...It took the dinosaurs a long time to perish. Microsoft has a huge installed base and a ton of cash, so its demise is far from imminent. But Microsoft is becoming much less relevant. It’s an open secret that Vista is somewhere between a dud and a disaster. I have had friends who are not […]
Read more...Roland Piquepaille has a very good post on his Technology Trends blog, “Creating energy from wasted heat.” Although much of the news about climate change has been grim (both the severity of the situation and the lack of political willingness, at least in the US, to even admit there is a problem), it is important […]
Read more...An excellent column by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times, where he is the lead economics editor. Starting with principles put forward by Ben Bernanke in his recent speech on income inequality, Wolf concludes that America cannot do without some form of a welfare state, specifically improved training, education, and universal health care. The section […]
Read more...Several stories are taking aim at Apple, including a rant by Steve Ballmer (sorry, no videos). No matter how many bad things that Ballmer says about the iPhone, this is the man who gave us the Zune. The fact that he is upset about the iPhone is the strongest endorsement I’ve seen so far. First, […]
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