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There has been a lot of talk of late about the arrival of the Singularity, the moment when human and computer merge. This does not come (if it comes) in one moment, but rather in small and incremental steps....

I am reading Walter Isaacson’s terrific new biography of Leonardo da Vinci. Walter Isaacson has a long history now of writing great biographies, from Steve Jobs to Einstein to Benjamin Franklin. All three of them could be marked as ‘genius’,...

Meet Ben Sargent. Maybe you recognize him as the star of Back Yard Goldmine on DIY Network. Or maybe you recognize him as the star of Unique Sleepson The Travel Channel. Or maybe you saw him on Throwdown on...

We just wrapped up our 4-Day Intensive video bootcamp in New York. It was a remarkable success. We have been running these bootcamps since 1988, and I never get tired of doing them. It never ceases to amaze me...

This morning we watched CBS Sunday Morning. It’s a very good show. It also looks exactly like it did when I worked there as a producer in the 1980s. In fact, it could be exactly the same, save that...

The fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations are probably just getting started, but yesterday, Apple’s nascent toe in the water attempts at TV production was the most recent victim. Apple, world-changer, most valuable company in the world, amazing technical...

October 2017 is a big month. Yeah, there’s Halloween… But October 2017 also represents something much more interesting, though I am willing to bet that this remarkable anniversary will go unnoticed. Five Hundred Years Ago, on October 1517, Martin...

You know, some of the most innovative ideas in the tech world have come out of universities like Stanford. I mean, these are hot houses of invention. That’s where Google was invented! And no wonder. They attract bright young...

A few years ago, my nephew introduced me to three of his college buddies from Wash U. They wanted to participate in the Mongol Rally, an 11,000 mile drive across Europe and Asia, from London to Ulan Bator, in...

When it comes to still photography, Hasselblad is the Gold Standard. These, after all, are the cameras that went to the moon (and unfortunately, got left there) in the Apollo mission. The thing about Hasselblad has always been the...