Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Grassroots Organizing: The Stealth Hero
Monday, November 07, 2016
Hillary Is Winning, Do Not Fear
Too Dangerous For Twitter, Too Dangerous For Nuclear
Post Poll
Deep divisions within the Republican Party that Trump has helped stoke are revealed in a question on what the GOP should do if Trump fails to win the presidency.
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Health 2.0
The technology industry has entered the field of medicine and aims to eliminate disease itself. It may well succeed because of a convergence of exponentially advancing technologies, such as computing, artificial intelligence, sensors, and genomic sequencing. We’re going to see more medical advances in the next decade than happened in the past century.
Abundance, Round The Corner
In the 1800s, aluminum was more valuable than silver and gold because it was rarer. So when Napoleon III entertained the King of Siam, the king and his guests were honored by being given aluminum utensils, while the rest of the dinner party ate with gold.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Elon Musk: To Mars Or Not To Mars
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Fingerprint Scanning Is Its Own Revolution
Microsoft Surface Phone Rumored To Feature Unique Fingerprint Scan
This has implications for taking voting rights to everyone, about letting people vote for an entire week from anywhere, instead of on just one day at one physical location (the voting rates could cross 90% as it should), this will take credit history building to the masses in the Global South, and thus a massive long overdue democratization of credit, this will make fingerprint scan as much a feature of phones as cameras, this has implications for global immigration, and security and policing, and education and health. This has positive implications for cyber security. This is good stuff.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Tim Cook Like Steve Ballmer?
Steve Ballmer faced a lot of criticism as CEO and he would get confused because he was bringing in a lot of revenue. A company is supposed to make money, right?
But he was not innovating. All the new products were coming from elsewhere. He did manage to buy Skype though.
Tim Cook has been toying with the dimensions of the various Apple products, and he has been bringing in a lot of money.
Is that a warning sign?
http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/25/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer/
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer | VentureBeat | Business | by Steve Blank