The buzzword for the past 2-3 years – ever since people affirmed that smartphones and tablets are kind of a big deal – is that the office will have to adapt and ultimately cater to its workers' home computing setups. The consumerization of the enterprise has manifested in newly minted BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies,...
Half of technology rumors nowadays follow a Mad Libs-ian template[1]: (reputable technology company) is rumored to be working on a (untouched, potentially sexy gadget). Their expertise in (what the company is good at) can bring a fresh look at the (previously deemed stale industry). Here is a click-bait list of speculation that would make...
User interfaces are kind of a big deal nowadays in the valley; coming up with something minimalistic, simple, and takes the least amount of clicks/taps from the user is press conference material from the big companies, and the crux of every startup attempting to rethink calendars or email and every other default productivity app...
I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I made sure to spend the extra money for the "technology package," which translated...
They are driven by a pervasive and dangerous ideology that I call "solutionism": an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are "solvable" with a nice and clean technological solution at our disposal. Evgeny Morozov, via the New York Times. This is a familiar...
As expected, Sony announced their next-gen console today. The keynote filled in some of the juicy details, including apparently some sort of social network and video sharing, game streaming, the usual cacophony of motion + touch + button controls, and of course top-of-the-line hardware specs (at this point in time) and pretty games. The Verge has a...
