Posts tagged with Technology
Computer Literacy in a “Post-PC World”
I don’t buy the popular notion that we’re in an post-PC era. Of course, the proliferation of mobile devices has outpaced PCs to a large degree. They are accessible in a way that PCs never managed—the combination…
The New Withings Steel Watch
Chalk it up to bad purchase timing. A week after I decided to wear a watch and went with the Whitings Activité, they announce a new, cheaper watch in the Withings Activité Steel: basically the same watch, with a cheaper…
Bringing the Technological Hammer Down on Cars
It seems inevitable that cars will be the next victim in the technologicalization of everything™. Tesla has successfully shown incumbant car manufacturers one way to look beyond fossil fuels—though they still have a ways to go to produce profitable…
The Slightly Smart Feature Watch
I have to credit the Apple Watch. Even though I don’t think the current iterations of smartwatches make much sense—low battery life, weak apps, and mostly gaudy[1] and ugly designs—they have made me think about wearing…
Reconciling Tech’s Lack of Progress with its Disproportionate Influence
In one of the latest a16z podcasts on role of academia in startups, Marc Andreessen ridicules a seemingly contradictory pair of stances taken by the media as critiques on the tech industry at large: There’s kinda two critiques right…
How Long Will we Keep Typing?
I’ve been playing through an old PC game – The Typing of the Dead: Overkill. It takes one of the campiest light-gun shooters (featuring zombies), and replaces shooting with the Wii-mote with typing out phrases on-screen, where each successful completion…
