Old Media in a New World
It didn’t have to be like this – we knew what was coming: the music industry showed the way. Still, when readers…
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Dr. Dre, Meet DJ. Eric
As iPods and smartphones put music in every pocket, somewhere along the way headphones became a fashion statement. When I reviewed the…
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Why Radio Is Losing Me
Two of my favorite radio stations recently shut down, more or less out of the blue: NME Radio and Q Radio in…
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A Heart for Invention
Dr. Thomas Fogarty with a model of the human heart. Until fairly recently, trouble with the pump that keeps us going used…
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The Future of Money
The moment of truth for any analyst and forecaster comes when looking back: five years on, how true or false do your…
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At least when you’re a bird… This one is tweeting its heart out at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.
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Google’s First Steps
My article for “Start” magazine, a sister publication of “Stern,” back in the spring of 1999. Photo credit: William Mercer McLeod When…
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Olympus OM-D EM-5 Review
Thanks to my friends at Ubergizmo.com, I got to play with a nice camera for a few weeks: the Olympus OM-D EM-5…
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Here’s a perfectly legal kind of money laundering. Back in the 1930s, when high-society women were typically wearing white gloves, the director…
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The Third Industrial Revolution
What happens when cleantech meets peer-to-peer and the sharing economy? Imagine if we’d all have solar panels on the roofs of our…
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