The Museum of Soon-to-be-Obsolete Technology
The half-life of technologie has never been fast. Critical must- have today, a worthless piece of junk tomorrow. The turn-around time has never been fast. LP records lasted for about 70 years until cassette tape drove them out. But...
Read moreSupreme Ignorance
Say it ain’t so… Net neutrality? File sharing? Privacy? The limits of copyright in a digital world? And lots more. New technologies tend to move faster than the law, which causes all sorts of conflicts. Fortunately, we have the...
Read moreListening To The Technology
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7901103[/vimeo] Andy Grove, the former Chairman and CEO of Intel said “listen to the technology, it will tell you what to do’. If we are smart we will listen to where the technology is headed. It has been going...
Read moreIs China Inevitable?
Inevitable…yet moral and complying with the will of God Last week, in Venice, we went past the home of Marco Polo. Marco Polo, for those who went to public school in the US in the past 30 years and...
Read moreWhat Does a Horse’s Ass have to do with The Space Shuttle?
Ready for blast off? Today’s lesson is about the persistence of technology. Once a standard for technology is set, it is very very very difficult to get rid of it. Thus, as we enter into an entirely new realm...
Read moreMonk v. Ayatollah
Local author… Although Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1452, the true political impact of that technology was not really realized until 1517. It was then that Martin Luther (pictured above) a disgruntled Monk from Wittenberg, Germany, began to...
Read moreWhen 35mm and Video Meet
Panasonic merges all the advantages of 35mm with video… I started my career as a still photographer. I liked working as a photojournalist. The gear was light weight and working by yourself gave you a chance to be both...
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