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I opened the NYT and read about Ken Olsen, 84 and J. Paul Getty III, 54 (their stories were on opposite pages). A lot can be accomplished in the extra 30 years that drug overdose took from someone. Mr Olsen managed to trim down then IBM mainframe into a DEC mini-computer. In today’s terms, it…
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It’s been a while since The Right Stuff was released. Gabby’s husband (Mark Kelly) was going back on the last Endeavor mission. The President referred to our Sputnik moment , and how we should move Science Fair under the Super (Bowl) dome. All this reminds me of a piece of moon rock on display by USAID…
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Super Bowl Ads depict senior citizens who watch TV from the nursing home and argue among themselves. Ads use special effects. Ads show animation (transformer) inside an upcoming movie. And ads with humor, lots of them (dogs, Doritos and Darth Vader). New approaches for new demographics. The Temple of Sports anchors millions of viewers into that…
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At 6:30PM today, the Packers will hit the Steelers who will definitely hit back. Boom Bang! Boys and girls, both will be watching NFL football (it is worth noting that there has been an increase in NFL female audience). $3 Million per Ad . Lots of eyes balls. Wear this, take that and drink those. Consumer…
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I used to live just a few blocks from where it happened on that fateful day in 1963. As an active kid, I joined the throng to witness history in the making: monk’s self-immolation as a peaceful act of protest against the Diem’s dictatorship. The city had been permeated with the smell of tear gas…
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The Year of the Cat. Al Stewart in white suit. Cyclical, eternal and in sync with nature. No “dominion over the land and seas” as in Western theocracy (in an ironic twist, outside my window, the work crew keeps digging, plowing, flattening and paving the sidewalks – one after another, from water to power, cable…
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After Moore’s Law came Android’s Law (open-source software allows for faster deploy of smart phone apps – between six to nine months). http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111990/your-new-smartphone-is-already-a-dinosaur Smart phone turns dumb phone pretty quick. (conversely, studies showed a steady rise of IQ as digital natives spent more time playing games). I call this “smart and smarter” generation. We are…
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Just a date (at least, that’s what Facebook was first conceived i.e. a rendez-vous that was not). Instead, user-generated-apps got creative, turning social media into social change ; means to miracles. We should have coders take an oath, just like doctors. That they will code to cure and not to plant virus. That the program…
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Life is full of paradoxes. Opportunity is embedded in the Chinese character for “crisis” (water bottle is selling for three to four times its normal price in current Egypt – oil is inching $100 per barrel ). Construction workers are mopping up of what is left of the Australian flood. And Netflix just rides the wave without…
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