Always On — almost
For a number of years I have been talking about the next generation of the Internet — Fast, Always on, and Everywhere. (There is a chapter on each of these characteristics in my book, Net Attitude). Although we have a long way to go, I think we have now reached the tipping point. WiFi is […]
Finding Members For The Board Of Directors
Board Member magazine (May/June 2003) included a story entitled “Where To Find New Directors”. The point of the story was that “reform-driven regulations are focring companies to look for additional outside directors who will bring special skills to the boardroom”. I could add some comments about this but the interview on the phone with Rob […]
Honesty In Action
A young systems administrator at IBM in Cambridge, Massachusetts took a taxi cab ride home to his apartment on a recent Friday night. Seconds after getting out of the cab, he realized that he had forgotten his backpack. He turned to see the cab disappear into the night. The backpack contained an IBM ThinkPad storing […]
Earth At Night
In case you haven’t seen this image, I wanted to share it — courtesy of NASA. This strking image was taken at night from the space station. Click here for the NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Or if you want something closer in, here is London at night.
Knovel
When I entered engineering school almost forty years ago (is that possible?), I used a slide rule and engineering reference manuals. I think of that as the first of three generations of using engineering and scientific data. The second generation was web-based data with PC’s for standalone and separate analysis. Knovel Corporation (pronouced nah-vil) has […]
