Posts tagged with Technology
Tesla's Hype in Defining the Future
Tesla has been called the Apple of cars, and the comparison does work in a few ways: * Both companies are known for their minimalistic and simple designs, * They both target the middle-high end of their respective consumer markets, * Both…
Fashion Choices and the Apple Watch
I just came across this astute article on the current state of Apple and Android smartwatches from FastCompany: Google Could Beat Apple At Fashion—Just Like It Did Phones It gets to the heart of one of the problems with…
Review: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
It seems inevitable that by the end of this decade, we’ll reach a new level of software automation in our lives never seen before. Between drones and robotics and autonomous cars and possibly the Internet of Things and automated…
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…
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…
