We’re going on a hike, quick grab your camera, GPS, compass, level, survival guide, book on edible plants, road map to the trail head, and newspaper with today’s weather. That will take a while to gather … or you can just leave right now, knowing you already have all of that…
I watched my roommates start their own business. They poured thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours into their company: It never turned a profit. Many startups succeed, more fail. That’s just a fact of business. What is unfortunate is when…
Dan Bricklin invented the computer spreadsheet. His company, VisiCorp, initially made millions of dollars. Then competitors came in and took over the market. Was Dan Bricklin a success? Dan’s personal metric for success was: did he improve the world. Not only could past data be organized and…
How easy is it to teach someone to make a “Hello World” program? Easy right? Well how easy would it be to make a similar program using the ENIAC? The ENIAC was programmed by plugging and unplugging wires. If you fast forward it got a bit easier once we were…
Gwyneth Ho, a journalism student, was covering a protest in Hong Kong when she witnessed government hired thugs attacking people with clubs; next they attacked her. Her coverage of this story exploded, not because she had a pen and paper handy, but because she had a cell phone and a camera: she…
China has “the great firewall,” while the U.S. is grappling with banning TikTok and other select apps over security and privacy concerns. Does the future hold an open internet where any global citizen has equal access or are we moving towards a “splinternet” where nations impose controls…
