Posts tagged with Technology
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…
The Persistence of Printed Books
I guess not everybody shares in my enjoyment of the Kindle and the movement towards digital books. The New York Times reported that the sales of e-books has actually slipped in 2015 from the year prior, and that readers…
Software Needs a Bigger Appetite
Software should be doing more. It’s now been a full 4 years of software gluttony, and indeed we’ve seen software play an important part in everything from taxis to restaurants to healthcare. There’s no area of our…
Technology for Play More than for Work
I came across this article on Vox which makes an astute point on technological productivity, or the lack thereof. He notes that automation has not increased efficiency in the same amounts as in the past: But despite the techno-hype…
Can Free Mobile Content Survive?
Facebook Instant Articles. Apple News powered by iAds. These are the ways that tech companies are telling us that the web is not good enough for text and images anymore, and that full native is still the holy grail for…
