Internet Neutrality
“The internet is the ultimate vehicle for free expression. The internet is simply too important to allow broadband providers to be the ones making the rules.” — FCC Chair Tom Wheeler The FCC voted to...
View ArticleNY Times, 1985: Laptops Are Dead
“Whatever happened to the laptop computer?” asked Erik Sandberg-Diment in the New York Times of December 8, 1985. It was just a passing fad, he wrote: “Was the laptop dream an illusion, then? Or was...
View Article9mm Computer Tech Support
Last Monday evening in Colorado Springs when Lucas Hinch saw his computer monitor go solid blue, he saw red. He took the Dell XPS 410 off the desk and into a back alley, pulled out his Hi-Point...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines iPad Crash
70 American Airlines flights were delayed last week when an app on the pilots’ iPads crashed. The problem wasn’t with the planes or the iPads but with the software, made by a division of Boeing....
View ArticleMobile is Murdering the Cyber Café
Internet Cafés are an endangered species. Why? Because everyone has a smartphone now, even in Rwanda, Bangladesh, China, India and Nigeria. In the USA, some cyber cafés are staying solvent by offering...
View ArticleWiFi on Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji, Fujisan, is one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains,” a place of ancient shrines, a designated national Historic Site and Special Place of Scenic Beauty. UNESCO added Mt. Fuji to the World...
View ArticlePrince & Kate Bush: ‘My Computer’
Prince Rogers Nelson (1958 – 2016) started with personal computers in the early 1980s, and used the PC as a metaphor in 1983’s “Computer Blue” before writing a song about online dating (“Emale“) and...
View ArticleCyber Cafés of 1996
At the end of the last century, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and nobody owned a laptop or cellphone, early humans paid money to rent desktop computers and drink Jolt Cola in public accommodations...
View ArticleNot Easy
IBM’s AI program Watson helped write this song with Alex Da Kid, X Ambassadors, Elle King, and Wiz Khalifa. See more here. ______________ Short link: http://wp.me/p6sb6-oOP Comments are welcome if...
View Article1973 Computer predicts the end of civilization. We’re right on track.
“In 1973, a computer program was developed at MIT to model global sustainability. Instead, it predicted that by 2040 our civilization would end. While many in history have made apocalyptic predictions...
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