A brilliant parody. Even the Apple fanboys should get a laugh out of this.
February 22, 2011February 21, 20112011: The Year of the TabletThe year isn’t even a quarter over yet and already it looks like I missed a big, big prediction. February 19, 2011Is Google Evil?If you’ve been watching Glenn Beck, or not, you’ve probably heard about how he’s telling people that Google is evil. The same company whose motto is “Do no evil” is evil? This is probably the article Beck read to reach that conclusion.
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February 18, 2011My Favorite Fictional ComputersWhen I was young, I wanted computers just like the ones in Batman’s bat cave. Or like the computers on Lost In Space. Turns out, they were the same computers. February 17, 2011Your Job is in DangerInteresting editorial in the Wall Street Journal today. The economy is changing. Not actually shrinking, but thanks to technology some jobs are just no longer necessary. Are we ready for the Butlerian Jihad yet?
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February 16, 2011Lots of Facebook Friends Equals Lots of AnxietyThank God I don’t have that many Facebook friends!
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What If Our Computers Turned Into Girls? Part IIThis is the second part of an original, two-part story I wrote back in 1985 or so. February 14, 2011Valentine’s Day MemoriesThis is an article I published in a San Diego computer magazine back in 1985. It’s copied here in its entirety. February 11, 2011The Dvorak KeyboardMy last two blog posts have been about computer keyboards, and their typewriter ancestors. A question came up about the Dvorak keyboard. So this blog post I (finally) end my Keyboard tirades with a discussion of that keyboard.
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February 10, 2011End of Humanity Now Only 35 Years AwayForget about the Mayan Calendar. According to futurist Ray Kurzwiel, computers will grow so fast and intelligent by 2046 that they’ll basically take over. Ray sees a benevolent future of mankind living forever. I see something akin to the Butlerian Jihad that Frank Herbert wrote about. Doom! Doom! D-Doom! |
