This post’s title is making light of what I think is an important issue: As technology leaps forward, when will mankind retain the wisdom not to empower non-living things with sentient abilities, such as to discern what to kill?

Autonomous killer robots are real. More are coming every day. The technology to create these things isn’t the issue. As with all technology, the relevant question isn’t whether we can do a thing but do we need to do a thing?

I know I joke about the robot apocalypse. I hope you chuckle every time you read it, but it’s a very serious possibility.

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Holy Smokes! Google’s stock (GOOG) just jumped up 10% today to leapfrog over the $1000 mark. It’s one of a handful of stocks to reach that goal.

GOOG was introduced at $100 a share many moons ago. It’s never looked back.

Today’s jump reflects positive ad click sales. And it’s driving up the Wambooli Tech Stock Index something fierce.

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It’s the first time and maybe not the last time. Last quarter the total number of Android tablets (all makes and kinds and sorts and varieties) outsold Apple’s market-dominating iPad. This is reason to cheer, of course, because Android is now on a competitive par with iOS. Yet it could also be because Apple’s crazed fan base knows a new iPad is coming, so they stopped buying. Either way, it’s good news for Android tablet freaks.

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No surprise here. When you play NBA Jam with the Bulls, the all-time-champs will fail to make a 3-point shot during the last seconds of the game. On purpose. The programmer coded it that way.

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The article (link below) pretty much sums up my thoughts on the topic.

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Valve, the people behind Steam and the popular Half Life game series (I want my Half Life 3!) is hinting a new gaming console. If so, it would be the fourth console, after the Xbox, Playstation, and Wii. The link below goes to their teaser page.

What could it be? What could it be?

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Okay: Panic.

If you use an Android device, then odds are really good that any Wi-Fi password you’ve ever entered has been saved to Google’s servers. There is nothing to prevent Google from accessing that information.

The Back Up My Settings command (or Backup my Data), found in the Settings app, copies not only options, settings, apps, and accounts, but also passwords. In fact, if you use Chrome, any account passwords saved by the browser are probably also backed up and available on Google’s servers.

Is this a security breech? Probably. No one will know unless some of the Bad Guys hack into Google’s servers to steal all that information.

I’m not particularly worried at this point. Making Google aware of how uncomfortable you are with this arrangement would probably help lead to some sort or acceptable solution.

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Apple stock is down over 2 percent this morning, one day after two new iPhone flavors were released. Apparently Wall Street is unimpressed with Apple’s latest efforts. This stock deflation (Pffft) is entirely predictable.

Where’s the big format iPhone?

Where’s the “cheap” iPhone?

Come on, Apple! Where is your innovative spirit? Where is the “think differently”?

I certainly hope that the fruit company has something truly exciting in the works. Supposedly, Steve Jobs was working on The Next Big thing right before he passed. I remember reading, “It’s going to be awesome!” Steve was known for such bold moves, and many times they paid off.

Apple: Do something. Make my life more interesting. Now.

Thank you.

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Yes, Android 4.4 will be named after the chocolate bar, not “Key Lime Pie,” which is what everyone in the universe was supposing. Silly Apple-esque spoof video shown below:

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Once upon a time, Apple was the innovator, Microsoft was the imitator. Apple created wildly unique products, many of them becoming industry-changing paradigms. Microsoft was the “me too” that came later, oh and toss in a new “standard” based on the technology they aped from someone else.

Microsoft hasn’t changed, but has Apple? Since the iPad, what has Apple offered the tech universe that’s been astoundingly fresh and different?

Nada.

Yet the stock continues to climb.

Perhaps the iWatch will be a breakout product, but even then Samsung’s wrist computer is due out before the end of the month. Apple is languishing. And it’s doubly disappointing for me because, generally speaking, any industry excitement invariably comes from the fruit company.

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