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Touch touch, write write, draw draw— the pen is dead, long live the pen

Steve Jobs didn’t get everything right. When he stood in front of an admiring audience and gave them the finger during the launch of the iPad, he declared no pens or styluses are needed ever ...

It’s the end of the year as we know it

Companies position themselves for growth in 2015 and beyond At the end of 2014, the future is looking brighter if you can ignore all the war, disease, and despair that’s going on around our little ...

CES no longer a leading indicator

Now what do we do? We thought we had really stumbled onto something when we recognized a correlation between the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the attendance at CES: when CES attendance fell, so ...

Predictions for 2015 and beyond

This is the time of year when soothsayers, financial forecasters, conspiracy theorists, and brilliant industry analysts polish their crystal balls and let the rest of you uninformed and ill-advised know what to expect for and ...

Why there is nothing to fear from AI

It’ll never happen in your lifetime? It’s simple: A: By the time we develop any new functionality we incorrectly call AI, it will no longer be the benchmark for what we think AI is, and ...

On things

If they are going to talk to each, what will they say? Things, we have so many things. Bridges that design and build themselves, cute little computers in our glasses and light bulbs, presumably all ...

Why gaming is a proxy for the PC market

Or maybe a leading indicator You can’t point to a single event like the big bang, but sometime late last year there was a renaissance, a rejuvenation, a revolution in the world of computer gaming, ...

From sharing to virtualizing in just under 60 years

A technology whose time has come, has been with us for a long time  With its introduction in the 1960s and emergence as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s, time-sharing represented a major ...

Future visions in the third quarter

The third quarter this year was a good quarter for looking at future technologies apparently. Many of the companies we follow held either their large event of the year or strategic meetings in which they ...

It’s time to get excited about 4K

The days of being a denier are over There are three things needed to get a market going: demand, supply, and affordability. When a new market segment is opened, the world pretty much splits into ...

Made any 4K videos lately?

Do you remember when YouTube first hit the scene? Do you remember people saying, Who the hell wants that? Why would I want to look at some dopey home video? How will they ever make ...

Are graphics worth it, do they matter?

How would you measure it? In my travels I’ve been in various discussions of late about the value of graphics—are they important? Depends a lot on the content is the short answer. The example I ...