One of the biggest mistakes I made in my journalism career lay in assuming tech companies would have the back of their workers, because they depend on human talent rather than muscle. (The picture is from a book on computer coding.) The tech oligarchs who made their piles in the last decade have become just […]
The business of America waits on no man, and no company. We just ask, what’s next?
This is how Jim Crow rolls on in the 21st century. Yes, it’s about the guns. But the guns are about the racism.
We can’t go to war in Ukraine. The Ukraine’s people decided to defend themselves, and we support that defense. That’s what makes theirs a righteous war. But it’s not our war.
The companies making these demands without thought are losers. Those acting strategically, paying people to come in and only demanding they come in when needed, they will be winners.
A lot of the lifestyle improvements promised for this decade are being put off. Cities can’t be redesigned because giant cars maintain the illusion of eternal suburbia.
Each of the five “Cloud Czars” – Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta – grew complacent over several years and let a strength become a weakness.
The momentum will continue toward consensus because technology demands it. We’re still in a technology era and so long as tech is where the money is, tech will get the power it needs from government.
Sensors and network software can be applied everywhere. Thanks to falling chip prices this can now be done cheaply. There is labor available to write the software, build the companies, and reap the rewards.
The last recession resulted in the cloud. I think this one will result in Intranets of Systems.
