I’d like you to watch this video, then imagine this many “quadrotors,” times 100.
keep reading →(Apple.com chat, November 12, 2012)
You are chatting with Stephanie, an Apple Expert.
Stephanie: Welcome to Apple! How’s it going?
You: The Mac App Store tells me I need OSX 10.7 to run iBooks Author. I have 10.6.8. How do I upgrade?
Stephanie: I am happy to grab a link to help you with [...]
keep reading →“Mary! I’m not kidding! Get Sarah on the line.”
“I’m sorry, Jake,” his phone replied. “That’s not a good idea right now.”
“What, are you kidding me? I can’t believe she wants to blow off our weekend in the mountains for some damn work event. All she cares about is work. Get her on the [...]
keep reading →Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it.
Jim, you know the drill. Press the button above, and listen to your message, then read the top secret information below.
Our operatives have been unable to get [...]
keep reading →Sorry we’re not sorry (désolées que nous ne sommes pas désolées), but life has been too fun to stop and write blog posts.
Julie and Jane (that’s us!) have been running around Paris with our hot-off-the-presses Flexible Phones.
Imagine a stiff piece of Saran Wrap about as big as a paperback book, [...]
keep reading →“Dad, what happened to all the big companies?”
Ralph looked down at his 3rd grade son, Dan. They were waiting on a subway platform and had 103 seconds before the F train pulled in. They were perfectly positioned to board the third car, where the temperature was a perfect 70 degrees and plenty of seats [...]
keep reading →When Jake Tremblay stopped going to meetings, he claimed it was because a painful back injury made sitting and travel uncomfortable, and that he felt embarrassed that he sometimes needed to lie down on the floor to relieve the pain.
In retrospect, that probably was an elaborate cover story. Let’s count the advantages [...]
keep reading →It’s time, thought Tom, to lock in my bonus for the year. This is going to be like taking candy from a baby. He cleared his throat and began to address the other members of the executive committee at Prindle Industries.
“The way I see it,” he began, “A volatile marketplace doesn’t just [...]
keep reading →Two armed men approached the ten-year-old boy. One had a gun. The other a machete.
Timmy just stood there, silently.
The larger guy, sweating profusely and wiping blood off his forehead, looked the boy in the eye and warned, “I am going to mess you up.”
Timmy allowed himself the tiniest of [...]
keep reading →Dateline: December 15, 2012
In the final analysis, it wasn’t occupying public spaces, spending the winter sleeping in tents, or spawning occupations in over 300 cities worldwide that led Occupy Wall Street to succeed. It was hacking into the cell phone network.
So far as authorities can put together, a fourteen-year-old hacker called Dwiddle developed [...]
keep reading →Tales of Disruption
- Sometimes Words Escape Me
- No More Racing Home to Let Out Your Dog
- How to Get a Girlfriend, circa 2013
- Chatting about iBooks 2 with a Computer?
- Your Phone Won’t Let You Call Your Girlfriend
- Mission Impossible: Reaching Customer Service
- Paris with a Flexible Phone and a Sweet Tooth
- How Pachube Killed the Big, Slow Firms
- Banshee Construction Copter Robots
- James Bond meets Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
- Are Companies on Other Planets Stupid, Too?
- Fan Letter from a “Stalker”
- 3rd Party Candidate Becomes U.S. President
- Aha! (You Are a Cheating Spouse)
- Machiavellian Virtual Presence
