AI Will Not Replace Art
Sean Murphy"Etonne-moi!" --Serge Diaghilev, to Jean Cocteau Adam Gopnik, the prolific and brilliant writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker for several decades, has a timely piece in The New York Times that…
“On This Day” or, Take My Life, Please
The author, en fuego in '09 Remember when Facebook was still new? The novelty of being able to keep tabs on everyone, like e-mail on amphetamines, with pictures (and now,…
Streaming Services: Savior or Disruption? (Revisited)
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with good friend and industry veteran Jason Herskowitz (more about him HERE). In my capacity as an industry analyst at the Consumer…
Talking Tech with Eric Taub
Eric Taub has been writing about the tech industry for more than two decades. His new book, Does This Plug into That?, is a tremendous and overdue public service. In…
Streaming Services: Savior or Disruption?
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with good friend and industry veteran Jason Herskowitz (more about him HERE). In my capacity as an industry analyst at the Consumer…
Technology and Privacy, Cont’d…
The ongoing controversy surrounding Edward Snowden has reminded me that the issues of privacy are not recent. Indeed, the notion of "other people" knowing what you are doing at all…
Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology and Privacy (Part Two)
PRIVACY VERSUS PROFIT: THE NEXT BIG DEBATE Not many people would oppose the proposition that consumers enjoy convenience and appreciate value. As the Internet has expanded and advanced, free content…
Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology and Privacy (Part One)
*Recent events reminded me that the issues of privacy are not recent. Indeed, the notion of "other people" knowing what you are doing at all times was very much a…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Four
Build It and They Will Come If it is true that history tends to be written by the winners, it is also a fact that the most successful ideas, in…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Three
(Re)Defining the High-End Audio Experience For practical purposes, the authentic high-end audio tag applied to products that sold for thousands, not hundreds of dollars. As such, it seems safe to…