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October was beautiful in Atlanta. It usually is. Football season, you know. But this one was especially fine. Highs in...

The story of the 2024 election is obvious in hindsight. It’s a tech story. AI beat the cloud. Democrats ran...

I’m glad no one reads this blog because it means that what follows isn’t going to jinx it. Kamala Harris...

When a manager loses the trust of Wall Street, you can feel it. It hangs over the stock like a...

Jensen Huang and his Nvidia AI chips have created a monster. The monster is “Artificial General Intelligence,” or AGI. Last...

The first two years of AI were defined by general purpose systems written for the broad market. ChatGPT, CoPilot, and...

When the economic history of our time is written, I’m afraid that Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan will be...

Almost a quarter century ago I began chronicling the history of technology with a book about Moore’s Law. A marketer...

In my book on Moore’s Law, first written in 2001, I have a long chapter about AT&T. Its theme is...

Moore’s Law creates deflation. Chips get faster, so computing costs less. This extends to everything computing touches. It extends to...