I met a very bright young man today by the name of Ben Edelman, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, who is involved in a number of interesting things from his current post on Typosquatting — how companies reserve popular misspellings of popular...
My grandmother Catherine McCaig lived to be 105 years old, and worked until she was 99. She cried when she saw the beginning of James Cameron’s Titanic because she lost her best friend Bridget on the voyage. I remember talking with her about her...
We used to love being the nation of the leading edge: the fastest and tallest of everything: fastest computers, tallest buildings, fastest cars, and so on. Below is a picture from Wikipedia of the Stanley Steamer in 1903 setting the world wide speed record...
Back in 1993, Jeffrey Rayport and I were trying to understand the implications of the exploding information world. It was about a year before the first browser, Mosaic, was created. Below are our “ten propositions for the virtual age”. I’d love your reaction to...
The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased their media use from 8hrs 33 mins per day in 2004 to 10hrs 45 mins in 2009, which means that except for when...