Live By the Calendar
This week, 12 years ago, I was writing Net Attitude. The basic premise underlying my book was that the web was at its infancy and we had only seen 2% of the potential it offered to simplify our lives. I asserted that websites that did not live up to their potential were a victim of […]
Doctor Shortage or Surplus
One of the issues confronting the health care system in America is the impending addition of tens of millions of uninsured people. Medscape Today has a very interesting three-minute video by Dr. Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, about whether our nation is on the verge of a healthcare provider shortage, or whether […]
Tell Them, Tell Them, Told Them
The Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is an annual event that Apple conducts for the thousands of developers who create applications for Apple’s products. When the conference is announced as open for enrollment, the available seats are sold out in about an hour because developers are thirsty to learn about the new application programming interfaces […]
Wallets
Paper currency was invented in Massachusetts in 1690 and the wallet was invented to have a place to store and carry the cash. Barney Garcia said that wallets today are more often used for carrying credit cards. In the near future, we may not need traditional leather wallets at all. The e-wallet or digital wallet is […]
Carrier Not Recognized
The new TSA Pre-check process is a potential breakthrough for getting more expeditious processing through the security check for airline travel. To use the new expedited process, you have to be a Trusted Traveler. Once you become one — in theory — you not only get routed to a much shorter line, but you do […]