It reminded me how quickly things have changed and are changing. How entertainment and information gathering and collaboration are shifting from movie theaters and video arcades to the home. How treating music in anything other than digital form makes less and less sense. How buying and consuming and communicating from anywhere other than the home, the office, the palm (mobile), and online is making less and less sense in many ways. We’re living in fascinating times.
Online Media Cultist on GTAIV
4 May 2008
2 April 2008
I think the giant is awakening. That’s something, and potentially constructive. However, my concern is that the breadth of that change is still too limited and the overall pace of change is grossly inadequate. Like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, Ballmer seems to be content with half measures while MSFT does - or at least while the first embers, which had already been apparent for years, now threaten to turn into something much more serious. Worse, management may be getting desperate about that situation - hence the recent ill-advised and fiscally irresponsible YHOO bid.
MSFTextrememakeover on Microsoft
6 March 2008
Growing up as a young proto-scientist, I was always strongly anti-establishmentarian, looking forward to overthrowing the System as our generation’s new Galileo. Now I spend a substantial fraction of my time explaining and defending the status quo to outsiders. It’s very depressing.
Cosmic Variance on Science