The term “smartphone” is somewhat of a misnomer these days, since the millions of people who are using these so-called phones every day are actually using them to do much more than just talk to one another. In fact, a 2013 Experian Marketing survey indicated that an average adult user spends about an hour on […]
“Dear Ethicist– A couple of months ago I was sitting in a waiting room, flipping through magazines when I found an article that said smartphones (and tablets!) have more germs on them than your average toilet: Here! Here! Here! and Here! Of course, the very next day my co-worker wanted to show me some pictures […]
With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year to 15-year future may look like. As I wrote a few weeks back, .family is already in the pipeline for 2013. (I hope to purchase […]
According to a recent New York Times piece by Matt Richtel marriages in much of the world rarely last much longer than a decade or so. He suggests that marriage itself probably needs an “overhaul” in the form of limited marriage contracts between 5 and 20 years. A law proposing short-term renewable marriage contracts was recently […]
Grizzled, bleary-eyed, booze-reeking, day laborers arrive at a parking lot around 8 a.m. for work. If you hire one and want more work, hold off payment as long as possible; once paid he’ll vanish, until penniless and sobering up again, you find him at 8 a.m. in the future. That was forty years ago in […]
Although the data center industry has seen tremendous growth over the last few years, organizations are still faced with the overwhelming need to manage surplus data while having continuous access to real-time information and meet the increasing demands of the mobile force within corporate enterprises. These topics and more will be discovered this week in […]