Technology
An interactive love story for the third millenium
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2015 The Weekly Screed (#705) An interactive love story for the third millenium by David Benjamin LAS VEGAS — Fifteen years ago, just before the Consumer Electronics Show, Cisco Systems announced a deal with Whirlpool “to jointly build networked appliances, such as washing machines that can automatically detect mechanical problems and summon…
Read MoreMy mother, the raised ranch with detached garage
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015 The Weekly Screed (#704) My mother, the raised ranch with detached garage by David Benjamin LAS VEGAS — In the area of technology, the popular media tend to be more credulous than when they cover analog news like evolution, abortion and Big Bang cosmology. One of the whizbang wonders regularly revived…
Read MoreGeorge Jetson might have been more convincing
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 The Weekly Screed (#659) George Jetson might have been more convincing… by David Benjamin “The future of mobility will be done by electronics and — for sure — fun to drive!” – Rupert Stadler, Chairman, Audi Aktiengesellschaft MADISON, Wis. — Every year, one of the corporate Power Point extravaganzas at the…
Read More