Taking a Break ()- March 18, 2004 I'm going to take a break from this blog for a couple of months. Maybe come back in June. People are still talking about the economics of telecom and spam and the impact of the Internet on various business models,...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/taking_a_break.php Moore's Law and Military Technology ()- March 15, 2004 Five years ago, Ray Kurzweil predicted that we would see military aircraft the size of birds by the year 2009. Based on this article by Phil Carter, it would seem that Moore's Law seems to be moving faster. AeroVironment's MicroAir...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/moores_law_and_military_techno.php Biotech and Sports ()- March 12, 2004 I argue that we should not think of biotechnology solely in terms of sports metaphors. sports are a peculiar facet of human experience. They are inevitably zero-sum in character. For every winner, there is a loser. Each tournament has only...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/biotech_and_sports.php I'll take Ohio ()- March 10, 2004 Steve Clemons praises the taxpayer support of high-tech research in New York state. New York has already invested $620 million of a planned $1 billion to create an imaginative network of research and development incubators - dubbed "the Empire State...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/ill_take_ohio.php Email Innovation ()- March 10, 2004 Has anyone tried any of the products from Stata labs It looks like they have a spam-filter proxy server, which I assume works something like popfile. Also, they have a search engine for email (I know, I know, anybody who...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/email_innovation.php 99-cent rip-off ()- March 10, 2004 Brother Ernie wonders how Apple can convince people that an iPod that can store thousands of songs should be filled at a cost of 99 cents per song., Something's got to give. I don't think that it will be digital...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/99cent_ripoff.php If Brad DeLong called me stupid ()- March 9, 2004 I wouldn't brag about it. Certainly not if the topic were international macroeconomics. Regardless of where you are politically, I think that it is safe to say that when it comes to the relationship of savings and the trade deficit,...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/if_brad_delong_called_me_stupi.php Red Sox Technologies ()- March 9, 2004 My essay on technologies that perennially disappoint. Micropayments E-books Speech Recognition Video Conferencing Social Networking Software Virtual Classrooms ...The engineers, tinkerers, and inventors who are still working on Red Sox technologies all labor under the illusion that all that is...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/red_sox_technologies.php True Lies ()- March 7, 2004 After reading Weinberger's Law: whatever people most emphasize about themselves is the biggest lie they tell. If your boss tells you that he's all about teamwork, then he's all about himself. If Nixon says that he is not a crook,...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/true_lies.php News of My Death, Reprise ()- March 4, 2004 I wrote about the coming death of newspapers quite a while back. One of my points was that the decline in young readership spells doom. Vin Crosbie has more data to buttress that view. Minnesota Opinion Research Inc. (MORI), presented...http://bottomline.corante.com/archives/2004/03/news_of_my_death_reprise.php |