It’s generally good fun to see large companies have a go at each other in the press, but the latest one is not (yet) as gratifying as one might hope, mainly because neither player has landed a blow. In yesterday’s Financial Times (oddly the salvo was not picked up in the US until today, relatively […]
Read more...This is a fascinating little bit of analysis in, of all place, Mother Jones, where James Galbraith gives us “Bush’s Beltway Boom.” In it, he describes how the people at the top of the food chain (the top 1% that everyone is getting so upset about) has changed in the Bush years from the Clinton […]
Read more...No, I didn’t say that. Daniel Eran, in a post “Can Apple Take Microsoft in the Battle for the Desktop?” at his blog Roughly Drafted, did (it’s a heading to one of the sections of the piece). A few days ago I posted “The Sun is Setting on Microsoft,” and got a comment that, along […]
Read more...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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