Friday, July 30th, 2010

Some will tell you that Web 3.0 is already here.  Others will say in about 10 years.  It has to do with when you think it’s coming.  I would offer a few opinions since this is hard to base on facts. The law of innovation is normally that a need develops, dreams of meeting it [...]

Do you know what my dream job is? (this week) I venture capitalist. I would love to travel the world with my millions or billions of dollars listening to presentations from the young and eager people looking to be the next Google or Apple. There is at least one major hurdle to that: I don’t have millions or billions and I don’t know anybody who knows what a billion of anything looks like although I once read that a billion golf balls would fill a baseball stadium.

I’m not very old but I’m old enough to remember my first computer. It was in a box the size of my father’s car and felt like it weighed about as much. It was an IBM 5150. Two disk drives, and a 4.77 MHZ processor. No hard drive, just a lot of 5.25 inch floppy disks that, to be honest, had a very weird feeling when I held them.