The Incumbent Challenge
“I’ve got a feeling… that tonight’s gonna be a good night” – Black eyed peas In the fight for wearable, a challenge has come totally from left field, and is being executed in a way that is oddly...
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It turns out it takes about 14 years for things to return to normalcy after a substantial crisis. For the first time in 14 years, I didn’t approach this week with the same level of dread I have for...
View ArticleThere’s no app for that
The next generation of successful services may not come up as individual apps. In the past few months, Uber has quietly started embedding itself beyond its own app (you can now order an Uber from...
View ArticleAn internet thanksgiving
This week, in the United States, people will be celebrated Thanksgiving, a time to eat turkey and look at the things we’re all thankful for. With this in mind, I’d like to thank the people who make one...
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I went to the World Trade Center yesterday… to get my son’s mac fixed and was at pains to explain what happened on that day, 15 years ago, when I, along with a whole generation, was forced to grow up....
View ArticleThe Electoral College Test
Much like a large part of the country, I was in shock last week over the results of the election. As happened with Brexit a few months ago in the United Kingdom, a wave of populism mixed with...
View ArticleThe new command line
Long before Windows, long before MacOS, there was the command line. Long before iOS, and long before Android, the only way to bend a computer to your will was to give short commands that could be...
View Article5 Predictions for 2017
Many of you have asked me to make predictions for the upcoming years so I’m pulling out the dusty old glass ball and presenting to you the things I will look at in the coming year. The prediction game...
View ArticleAmazon’s Quest to Become the Retail Operating System
Next week, in New York, the retail industry will meet at the National Retail Federation “Big Show”. There will be much talk about the continued impact technology is having on them. One of the topics...
View ArticleA Call for Ethical Tech
Many commentators have highlighted that one of the factors that put Mr. Trump in the White House was the concern around eroding jobs in the mainland. A large source of that jump disappearance has been...
View ArticleWhen Silence is Not an Option
A note to readers: Politically charged content ahead. We’ll return to regularly scheduled tech coverage next week. I am an American and I cannot stand behind my president’s action discriminating...
View ArticleInternet 4.0: The Ambient Internet is Here
Technology takes the Internet through different steps of growth and we’re on the cusp of a revolutionary set of changes that will accelerate and modify how we interact with the network. To understand...
View ArticleAre We Breaking the Internet?
Recent outages from critical services across the net have created massive disruption over the last few days: Whether it was Amazon’s S3 service failure, which took down thousands of sites, Cloudflare’s...
View ArticleFighting for Things That Matter
In a corner of the web, there is noise brewing as defenders of the open web are continuing to fight the good fight. It all started when David Winer, who has made substantial contributions to the open...
View ArticleWe The People
I went through the weekend in a stunned haze, trying to understand that which cannot be understood. The events in Charlottesville defy understanding because they are so closely related to events we...
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“Today, we are all Americans” That quote is from French president Jacque Chirac, on a day, 16 years ago, that defied and defined who we are. The awful attacks on the World Trade Center left a scar for...
View ArticleRIP John Barlow
This week, the internet and the world got a little darker as one of the most optimistic and loving advocates of the potentials of the Internet passed away. John Perry Barlow was many things and many...
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“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore...
View Article2019 Predictions
As a new year is upon us, this is a good time to start thinking about context and read through the tea leaves of what’s next. I did miss out on predictions last year but I’m resuming past that hiatus....
View ArticleA Time for Hope
In a country already set ablaze, and with flames still burning in the background, French president Emmanuel Macron made his intentions clear: “We will rebuild… altogether… it is part of our French...
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