The First Thing That Is Not Obvious

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook All Bought Huge Patent Portfolios To Further Their Strategic Game. They're Doing What I'm Doing!

The Prize For Ultimate Inefficiency Goes To America. We Have Built In So Many Checks And Balances That Our 'leaders' Are The Most Thoroughly Hogtied Of Any On Earth.

The Depressing Thing About Battery Technology Is That It Gets Better, But It Gets Better Slowly. There Are A Whole Bunch Of Problems In Materials Science And Chemistry That Come In Trying To Make Existing Batteries Better.

The Next Purchase Is Too Little Too Late. The Apple Of The Past Was An Innovative Company That Used Software And Hardware Technology Together To Redefine The Way People Experienced Computing. That Apple Is Already Dead. Very Adroit Moves Might Be Able To Save The Brand Name. A Company With The Letters A-p-p-l-e In Its Name Might Survive, But It Won't Be The Apple Of Yore.

Computing Has Gone From Something Tiny And Specialized To Something That Affects Every Walk Of Life. It Doesn't Make Sense Anymore To Think Of It As Just One Discipline. I Expect To See Separate Departments Of User Interface, For Example, To Start Emerging At Universities.