Tech Business
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Remembering Essayist Paul Fussell
While not the usual fare for this blog, this year marked the loss of one the great American essayists of the last fifty years, and a writer (by way of some professorial tough love) who became a great influence on both writing and approach to work. Wikipedia can tell you the complete biography. For me,… Continue reading
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The Power of Scarcity – Part 1
Full disclosure: I was there at the dawn of the microcomputer age. Seeing an old Atari joystick washes nostalgia over me. I remember the simple joy of typing in pages of BASIC code of a program in a magazine — and then the tedium of finding the one error that kept it from running. And… Continue reading
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Communication
“The problem with communication…is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” – George Bernard Shaw Technology affects many aspects of the way we work and live. The profusion of communication methods today makes it easier than in any point in history to convey ideas, to provide news, and to connect. Rapid advances in storage and… Continue reading
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Embrace and Replace
In its heyday, the company seemed to dominate market segments effortlessly. From humble beginnings developing BASIC language interpreters for the early hobbyist computers, it developed the operating system that powered the platform that became the standard for nearly every computer sold in the world. It watched from the sidelines in the mid-1980s as graphical user… Continue reading