Motorola
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In the late 80’s, PacTel Cellular boasted seamless connection from San Francisco to San Diego. That is, if you had a battery pack to power the wireless devices (MicroTac? Motorola). Remember this was pre-Twitter days. Now it’s 12/12/12 and the Mayan’s calendar is soon running out. Back when Marconi was experimenting with sending signals across the…
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When you are inside, you are hard-presed and unable to think. But when you are out of the bubble, it’s illuminating. You are able to look back, to gain perspectives. Bubble by definition is that which encompasses those who subscribe to its rules (deposit here, withdraw there). We got the Tulip mania in Holland, Ponzi…
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A laid-off Coca Cola delivery man gave a bank teller a note, demanding one dollar so he could go to jail and get healthcare. A Florida retiree robbed a bank to pay his mortgage. New York sex workers told investigative reporters they went on-call to pay back college tuition. Something is not right with our…
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I had my share of empty TV studio, that is, between broadcasts (6PM and 10PM). Now, there is no recoup time. We have evolved to Office 365, with servers resided in the “cloud” instead of the (telco) closets. Mobile working has evolved from CB radio, to Motorola brick phones, from Skypage to Skype chat. Cryptography moved from…
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When I saw a near accident today (a beat-up car driver, on the cell phone, backing up and brushing my neighbor’s mail box – which pulled my neighbor out of the door, in the middle of a mobile call himself), I realized we were indeed in a different era (from one which people sat on…
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