Browsing the Web in the Nineties
Quora is a site that strives to “answer any question you might have”. A Quora member recently asked “What was it like to browse the Web in the nineties?” Great question. Brian Hayashi, CEO of ConnectMe 360, decided to provide the answer. He did a very nice job of it, and with his permission, I am […]
A Universally Connected World… everything and everybody (2012)
The MIT Technology Review this week had a nice story about how GE is promoting the idea of an “industrial Internet”. This is a really good idea. A number of us at IBM have been talking about “millions of businesses, billions of people, and trillions of things” connected to the Internet for quite a few […]
OS/2 Celebrates 25 Years
Harry McCracken’s story (see 25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System) about OS/2 brought back a lot of memories. Seeing my picture in PC World magazine made me feel old — who is that young man? Bill Gates and I were both wearing purple shirts, but that […]
Speech at SIIA
The Future of the Internet – Disruptors of the Next Generation It was a privilege to be a speaker at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) conference in New York on January 25. The subject of the speech was The Future of the Internet but I included an emphasis on impact to healthcare and […]
Big Data
The storage capacities of laptop and desktop computers has been growing rapidly, but the growth may not be fast enough. According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Perhaps quintillions of bytes are not meaningful to most of us, but it is the growth rate that is staggering — 90% of […]
