Technology
Because of internet distribution
core technologies become free / commodities and because of internet distribution and de facto market standardization at many layers Steve Sinofski on why DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
The Mother of Invention and all
It might have just turned out that the relative GPU processing poverty of DeepSeek was the critical ingredient to make them more creative and clever, necessity being the mother of invention and all. Jeffrey Emanuel, in the long and very thoughtful Short Case for Nvidia Stock
Apple
Apple always seems to be “behind” in innovative technology
Apple always seems to be “behind” in innovative technology when in fact it is already applying it in purpose-driven ways that are less about tech demos and more about customer delight. Matthew Panzarino reviewing iPhone 7
We distinguish the digital from the real
One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. William Gibson: The Rolling Stone interview
Technology
It’s a software world
It’s a software world. And because of software, it’s a soft world in a different sense, in the original sense of the world: it changes its shape easily. Frank Chimero, paraphrasing in his must-read peace What Screens Want
The impact technology will have
It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, but underestimate its significance in the longer term. Larry Page, announcing Google closing the acquisition of Motorola
It's not about Personal Computer
It’s not about Personal Computer... it’s about *Interpersonal* Computing Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WWW, quoting Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
Internet
What “identity” means
it’s ambiguous in most discussions what “identity” means Twitter founder Evan Williams, on Online Identity (Wayback Machine)
Cognition
At any given moment, our most complicated machine
At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of human intelligence Adam Gopnik explains, in The New Yorker, How the Internet Gets Inside Us
It's why everyone is terrified of Google
it’s why everyone is terrified of Google: The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone’s trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath. Charlie’s Diary, The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
Open
Like '2.0', companies are coming to see
Like “2.0”, companies are coming to see “open” as just the next checkbox-marketing-trend to hitch their fading brands to. Chris Messina, on “open” and the cigarette industry, in Open-washing and the CamelOpenCircle …Jerk
Apple
It made technology go away
With the iPad, Apple has done the same for personal computing as it has done before with the iPod: it made technology go away. Jürgen from Cultured Code, An Empty Canvas