Category: technology history
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programming, teams, and the limits of automation
It is always worth pointing out that (as a general rule) human beings are terrible at predicting the future. This isn’t a harsh condemnation so much as recognition of the human condition. It wouldn’t take much effort to fill up a small book of quotes/proverbs/sayings that all boil down to “it is out of our…
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“Movies”, “Records”, and me – part 2
RecordsNotice that the word “movie” is not bound to a specific technology. e.g. “Movies” used to be synonymous with “films” – then the film went away, but the pictures remain … The same is true of “records” as a noun. Remember, gool ol’ Mr Edison made the first sound recordings on wax cylinders. So “records”…
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“Movies”, “Records”, and me – part 1
All the cool kids are doing it…I imagine that most people exist on a sort of “sliding scale” of “fashionableness.” At one extreme end is “hip/cool/fashionable/in style/trendy” near the middle is “not as young – but capable of understanding ‘what the kids are saying’” then the other extreme end is “What is everyone talking about?…
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Nokia-Microsoft, Compaq-HP, thoughts on company size and culture
Just watched a documentary “The Rise and Fall of Nokia Mobile” – which is available online from various sources (the link is to Tubi). From a “history of tech” point of view it was interesting. Nokia is one of the companies that “invented” the mobile phone – i.e. they tell the story of “mobile communication”…