Short Bio
Dr. John R. Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former Vice President for Internet Technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-five years. During his IBM career, John was Vice President of Marketing for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is a well-known international lecturer and […]
Internet Guru’s Theory of Evolution
Thanks to Mike Maney, Founder of ManeyDigital, for posting the picture on Instagram. The picture also appears on Instagram at #johnrpatrick. Mike was Public Relations Manager for our Internet Technology group at IBM back in 2000. There was an upcoming story (below) which was to appear in the Los Angeles Times and they wanted a […]
My First Job: IBM 50 Years Ago
Hard for me to believe, but I finished engineering school and joined IBM 50 years ago today, June 1. I was very fortunate to have many jobs during 35 years there. Introducing the IBM ThinkPad in 1992 was special, but my job as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s Internet activities was definitely the […]
Is The New MacBook a Hybrid?
I got hooked on Macs shortly after IBM no longer provided me with ThinkPad loaners. Macs are addictive. As Steve Jobs said many times, “It just works”. The time to upgrade my 2014 MacBook Pro had arrived. It is not nearly as old as America’s voting machines, but the new Apple MacBook Pro intrigued me. I […]
Former Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine Reviews Health Attitude
I was delighted to see Bill Machrone’s review of Health Attitude on the Amazon site. His review follows below. I have known Bill for more than twenty years, back when I was VP for Marketing in IBM’s Personal Software Products Division and Bill was Editor-inChief at PC Magazine. I started reading PC Magazine in August […]
