Month: November 2013

Technophobes

Talking to the people who understood the technology became demeaning, something to be avoided. Information was to move from management to workers, not vice-versa

this perfectly explains the dysfunction at banks and governments: both utterly reliant on technology but run by people who are afraid of it and proud of their ignorance. learning how things actually work would be hard, far harder than that intellectual lightweight so popular with that crowd: the MBA, but at least it would create leaders that aren’t just stumbling around in the dark.

Really cheap Android

it does raise the question what the internet of things will run on. real time os like qnx seem too limited to be of much value. so perhaps android?

The deeper issue, though, is that estimating tablet sales in this way is a little like trying to estimate global car sales by working out how many internal combustion engines are being made, and how many tires, but not adjusting for motorbikes, cranes, outdoor generators or 18 wheelers. Lots of ‘tablet’ chips and ‘tablet’ screens do not actually end up in tablets.

Gettysburg slides

Uh, good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? No, that’s not right. Hmmm. Maybe I’ll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I’m your president. While we’re waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee supervising the dedication of the cemetery. It’s great to be here, Dave, and you and the committee are doing a great job. Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn’t live without it, could we? Oh – is it ready? OK, here we go:

if you missed Abraham Lincoln’s PowerPoint presentation in Gettysburg 150 years ago today, he kindly posted his slides online, along with rough speaker notes.