One of comedian George Carlin’s great riffs was about our propensity to cherish and store “stuff.” We all like to store stuff. So it’s a big deal when we learn that Google will soon launch a consumer-oriented Cloud storage service called Drive. Another place to store our digital stuff.
WALL STREET JOURNAL In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession. Nineteen more followed—along with a century of phenomenal economic growth. Americans in real terms are 700% wealthier today. In hindsight it seems obvious that emerging technologies circa 1912—electrification, telephony, the dawn of the automobile age, the invention of stainless steel and…
What do cadavers, Tricorders and Qualcomm have in common? Only the biggest thing that’s happening in medical technology these days. And it’s not happening in a pharmaceutical research lab or at the National Institutes of Health, but at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. With the glitzy Vegas-style keynote announcement of the Tricorder…
With headlines featuring words like fizzle and slump, do we conclude from Friday’s “disappointing” IPO of Zynga [ZNGA:NASDAQ] that social media is a bubble that’s run its course? Hardly. We are witnessing the inverse: the real beginning. By any reasonable business standard, especially in these dismal economic times, it is remarkable that a four-year old…
I know Mayor Bloomberg did not use the 21st century word “crowdsourcing” this past July in his innovation initiative speech. He talked instead in old-speak, about providing “infrastructure upgrades” and enabling a “critical mass” of talent to allow New York City to reclaim “our title as the world capital of technological innovation.” For those sleeping…
I’m going to go out on a limb here with a prediction. The energy world will look exactly the same the day after October 28th, 2011, as it did yesterday. Why? On October 28th we’re expecting a public demonstration of a “revolutionary” new energy device in Bologna, Italy. The magic technology? Another too-cheap-to-meter construct called…
