I have a holiday tradition. Every December, I buy myself a present. That way I guarantee I will get at least one gift I actually want. (I have a closet full of sweaters and shirts that other relatives thought were “just perfect” for me. No. Just n…
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Future Tense: Kindness Day
January 13, 2011
Call me a grinch, but I’m not a big fan of Christmas.
What should be a celebration of the Prince Of Peace has turned into an International Capitalist Feeding Frenzy, with too many businesses and even whole economies depending on a month of con…
Future Tense: Nexus Netiquette
January 10, 2011
Not too long ago, I was sitting with a group of friends, schmoozing about computer games and our experiences with Starcraft II.
There’s a decision point in the single-player game where you have to choose whether to go with Tosh or abandon him …
Future Tense: Floppy History
December 9, 2010
The first time I saw a floppy disk, the person holding it was wearing bell-bottom jeans and a tie-dyed T-shirt. (Yes, I am that old.)
The 8-inch floppy was designed by Alan Shugart and David Noble at IBM. It was introduced to the ma…
Future Tense: The Problem With Prediction
November 24, 2010
Hugo Gernsback wrote a novel in 1911 called Ralph 124C41+. In it, he predicted things like night baseball and motorized roller skates and all kinds of other things that we take for granted today. He established science fiction as a literat…
Future Tense: Super Phones
November 10, 2010
I was planning to wait for the Zune phone to ship, but the Samsung Vibrant was already here. It’s a state-of-the-art Android phone with a four-inch AMOLED screen so bright it’s startling. It has a five-megapixel camera and shoots excellent 720p vi…
Future Tense: Smarter Phones
October 27, 2010
I was two and a half years old before I ever saw my mother without a telephone held up to her ear. The sight so terrified me that I ran and hid and refused to come out from under my bed until my dad dragged me out by my feet. This particular tra…
Future Tense: Camera Obscura
October 13, 2010
The first computer monitors were cathode ray tubes. You got bright green or gray lettering on black, 80 characters by 25 lines. And in the earliest days of the personal computer revolution, you had to buy a monitor card to drive it. …