The soul of my best friend, James T. (“T” or “Tommy”) Bass, departed his body at 2:28 this morning. Tommy was many things in his life – soldier, hippie, businessman, handyman, webmaster, and my spiritual advisor. He helped run the Magnolia Warehouse, a health foods wholesaler, in the 1970s, and served on the board of […]

I took one last spin through my hometown this weekend, before my coming trip to the Netherlands. I learned a lot. None of it was good. First, about Atlanta’s roadways. They’re in horrible condition, because we insist on hauling everything we have, wherever we go. SUVs, each with a single driver heading to work. Giant […]

Excuse my self-indulgence. But it finally hit me recently. Hard. Over the holidays, the arthritis in my left hip took a giant step forward. I think the cartilage there is all gone. The pain is a constant reminder that the clock is ticking, that whatever is on the other side is getting close. Aging was […]

I have avoided discussing politics here since November, but some things need to be said. A President who has the full support of Congress and the courts is not acting illegally. A minority will not achieve majority support by talking to itself, using only its own language. An AI political era demands an AI cloud […]

Money is like a drug. With proper dosage it can make you well. Take too much and you overdose. Silicon Valley began overdosing in May 2017.  That is when Masayoshi Son and the Saudis’ Public Investment Fund announced the “Vision Fund,” a $100 billion effort to dominate the tech future. It backed a host of […]

The history of technology is a history of revolutions. We are in one now, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution. But what kind of revolution is it? (Thanks to Perplexity for the illustrations.) The most recent revolution, beginning with Steve Jobs’ “just one thing,” the revolution of clouds and devices, has been nearly invisible to the […]

There’s always a generation gap. Today it’s among e-bike riders, and it is getting attention from policymakers. Just not in a good way. For folks like me, who grew up on bikes and are aging out, an e-bike is both transportation and exercise. We compare the motors and gears of our e-bikes to the gears […]

At my first job covering technology, in 1982, I met a librarian who had escaped the stacks. He set himself as a “digital librarian.” He used the online resources of the time to answer questions from Atlanta corporations and law firms. This was in the days of Lexis, Nexis, and Usenet. These weren’t direct answers. […]

As the number of people with e-bikes continues to rise, and as more people use them as transportation rather than for recreation, it’s clear we have one big enemy. It’s not Trump and it’s not the Congress. I’m talking about something much closer to home. It’s the cul de sac. Cul de sacs have been […]

We are now 15% through 2025 and one point has become glaringly obvious. There are now four Cloud Czars, not five. Apple is opting out of the GenAI frenzy. Apple’s announcement of “Apple Intelligence” last year was a head fake. I noted at the time they were rejecting “Big AI,” and they haven’t changed their […]