Tales from the Techside

It seems like the last few industry conferences I have been to have had lectures on understanding and reaching out to generational groups. Each of these lectures seem to focus on the tools; facebook, myspace, twitter etc… and less about the growing gap in experience that is changing our society.
I was trolling the […]

Netscrape vs Internet Exploder. That was how aficionado’s of their various browser’s disparagingly referred to their competitors product in the mid to late 90’s. It was a heady time, evidenced by the hugely successful IPO of Netscape Corporation in 1995.
I recall when I first moved to Silicon Valley, working for a semiconductor fabricator […]

 
Lately a lot of the buzz seems to be centered around the emergence of online games and virtual worlds as a great place to meet and attract new clients. I have had a number of agents who had never heard of Second Life before approach me ask me what I thought about the idea and […]

I think I have been hearing about this moment for almost 20 years now. “What will happen when the baby boomer generation retires?” The question was generally asked within the broader context of social security reform. Today the first baby boomer applied for social security. 60 million more boomers stand behind […]