Posts filed under “Technology”
A new hope for the blockchain?
Soaring crypto prices at the end of 2017 gave mainstream attention/interest to both crypto currency and the blockchain. The subsequent price crash separated people back into (mostly) two camps: dedicated “holders” and the mostly-disinterested public. While I personally have my doubts about crypto as a currency (beyond simply a medium of exchange between fiat), I […]
The Pentagon’s Engineers
David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, for the New York Times: President Obama’s newly installed defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, toured Silicon Valley last week to announce a new military strategy for computer conflict, starting the latest Pentagon effort to invest in promising start-ups and to meet with engineers whose talent he declared the Pentagon […]
Making informed choices with none of the work
David Pierce, writing for Wired: What does a tweet feel like? What about an important text? To answer these questions, designers and engineers sampled the sounds of everything from bell clappers and birds to lightsabers and then began to turn sounds into physical sensations…Ive was the decider and was hard to please: Too metallic, he’d […]
Come join me at Novice No Longer
Pssst. I moved! *deep breath* This is my last post on this blog. From now on, I’ll be spending my time on my new website: NoviceNoLonger.com. *exhale* Phew! It’s so nice to finally tell you what I’ve been working on! I didn’t just create a new website. I also wrote a book called 8 Things to […]
Apple is losing the living room to Microsoft on the Tech Night Owl
Gene Steinberg invited me to be a guest on this week’s Tech Night Owl, airing Saturday, November 23rd. We talk about Microsoft and Apple’s visions for a world of computers in the cloud and every device a display. We also touch on the Xbox One and how Apple is really losing ground in the living […]
Amazing new stuff in the works
This website has been fairly quiet for a while, but it’s about to come back with a vengeance. I don’t want to give too much away (which is so hard, because I’m SO EXCITED), but I’d highly recommend you join my email list now to stay in the loop. Think of this as a pre-announcement. A teaser. […]