This is Why People Hate Technology

This is going to be a post of a few words. Love Google’s mobile browser app UI’s. They really incred­i­ble with respect to what they do in a browser. Let me make one sug­ges­tion. You see, when I’m read­ing an email I always have to go back to the mes­sage list to move between mes­sages because […]

Please Don’t Compare RIM to Netflix

I’ve cut my Net­flix sub­scrip­tion just like many oth­ers, but please don’t com­pare Net­flix to RIM. While both com­pa­nies have crashed this week after report­ing results, they’re in two very dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions. RIM was an estab­lished play, that got creamed by a new entrant. It’s a well defined mar­ket, and RIM’s not now, nor has […]

RIM is not the First Tech Co to Stifle Innovation

RIM’s fall has been fast and hard. Sur­pris­ingly so because old tech­nol­ogy dies slower than old teach­ers. But, they’re not the only tech­nol­ogy com­pany to dis­par­age inno­va­tion, while insist­ing their way is best. I enjoy Philip Elmer-Dewitt’s arti­cles because they’re well researched. He has good fact and they’re always pre­sented well. It’s not your typ­i­cal “anti-Apple bashing” […]

The Evil Plan

A short play by David Bressler. Please read it as a con­ver­sa­tion between the reg­u­lar and ital­i­cized text. [Early 1900’s] I have an idea! Let’s cre­ate a way for peo­ple to com­mu­ni­cate over wires across long dis­tances. It will make the world smaller, and help peo­ple come together in ways we can’t even imag­ine. Cool! Where […]

Another Example of How Words Matter

On the sur­face, a sim­ple ques­tion like “what’s the thinnest smart­phone?” is, well, sim­ple. Turns out, it needed a court to decide the answer. I’m frus­trated by how things are over­sim­pli­fied these days. There seems to be no time for actual think­ing in our daily activ­i­ties — we just run at full speed to mindlessly […]