My 16 year-old son is only in 10th grade, but I’m pretty sure he’s (eventually) headed to law school. That’s based on the following exchange the other day, just before I got to back to town after a recent trip: Me: “Gabriel, my plane gets in at 11 p.m. tonight; can you pick me up?”...Read More
Playing Spoiler?? What if there was a way to regularly spend 20-30 minutes of quality time with your increasingly independent, now-6′ tall(!), just turned 17 year-old son, without texts or phone calls interrupting? That had the added the virtue of saving said teenager an hour on (and waiting for) two city buses,** in weather that...Read More
Paying With Corporate “Mini-Currencies” Once upon a time, a publicly-traded technology company (or a pharmaceutical — essentially, a special case of technology company) with $1 billion in sales and, say, $200 million in net income, might have earmarked $20 to $30 million annually for research and development (“R&D”). Today, it makes more financial sense for...Read More
Prognosticators’ Hits & (Mostly) Misses No, my “Top Ten” list for 2014 isn’t going to garner the same attention as Time Magazine’s impending choice for “Person of the Year,” and has none of the fanfare accompanying the Heisman Trophy winner (also due to be announced imminently). But on the plus side . . . I’m first! In that vein, here’s...Read More
Welcome to The Uber Age, or, “The Internet of People With Things” (“IoPT”) First, there was “The Internet of People.” Or, just “the Internet” for short. Then, there was “IoT” — the acronym for, “The Internet of Things.” Now? We’ve moved on to the era of what I’m calling “The Internet of People with Things” —...Read More
