A weekend update
11/01/10 07:47 Filed in: Collectanea
Some articles that have helped to shape my thinking
this past weekend. Follow the links if you want to
read more. Where I had something to say I added
comments after the quote.
-John Corey
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
By BRAD STONE
Published: January 9, 2010
NYTimes.com
“Researchers ... theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development.”
My son was in town. He just finished a semester at a university in Barcelona and is returning for the spring semester at Georgetown University (Washington DC). Though he had not read the article he made mention of what he though his older sister has used when she was a child. As their parents both worked in Silicon Valley I corrected his assumptions and explained how she had started ‘playing’ with a Mac SE/30 when she was just three years old. I think he understood what a Mac SE/30 is.
Failing Like a Buggy Whip Maker? Better Check Your Simile
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: January 9, 2010
NYTimes.com
Businesses “that don’t make it to the other side in the digital transition could reasonably be compared to carriage makers and carriage parts makers. But the buggy whip makers never had a fighting chance.”
Home Tool
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: January 8, 2010
NYTimes.com
“The dishwasher, the washing machine and the pill were supposed to liberate us from something, but the superduper Internet, alone among the great 20th-century technologies, has really nailed it. A woman of any ideological disposition or domestic arrangement must answer her e-mail.”
How Chris Messina Got a Job at Google
By MARSHALL KIRKPATRICK of ReadWriteWeb
Published: January 7, 2010
NYTimes.com
“In September [Chris] Messina was making the rounds, talking to a variety of companies in Silicon Valley and told a friend at Google that he was considering joining a big company as his next step. His Google contact told him that the company had a strong preference for hiring engineers, rather than people with the [design[ skills that Messina has.“
“Over the next few months a few other companies offered Messina positions, he said, but then his old Google contact pinged him again and asked if he was still interested in joining Google.”
“What had changed? His contact told him that Google was placing a new emphasis on getting the social web right, in a way that is good for the web.”
'Smart Phone' Is a Misnomer: It's a Computer, Not a Phone
By ALEX WILLIAMS of ReadWriteWeb
Published: January 7, 2010
NYTimes.com
“The real challenge for the enterprise is to shift its thinking about how it will move beyond the carriers and one day become an entirely data-centric organization - an organization that gives information workers the ability to work entirely on an IP infrastructure...”
U.S. Bankers Are Fed Up With British Regulations
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Published: January 10, 2010
NYTimes.com
“LONDON — A tough new requirement by Britain’s securities regulator that top banking executives and earners must defer 60 percent of their total compensation for a three-year period is pushing some American banks with extensive London operations to say that they just won’t take it anymore.”
-John Corey
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
By BRAD STONE
Published: January 9, 2010
NYTimes.com
“Researchers ... theorize that the ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development.”
My son was in town. He just finished a semester at a university in Barcelona and is returning for the spring semester at Georgetown University (Washington DC). Though he had not read the article he made mention of what he though his older sister has used when she was a child. As their parents both worked in Silicon Valley I corrected his assumptions and explained how she had started ‘playing’ with a Mac SE/30 when she was just three years old. I think he understood what a Mac SE/30 is.
Failing Like a Buggy Whip Maker? Better Check Your Simile
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: January 9, 2010
NYTimes.com
Businesses “that don’t make it to the other side in the digital transition could reasonably be compared to carriage makers and carriage parts makers. But the buggy whip makers never had a fighting chance.”
Home Tool
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: January 8, 2010
NYTimes.com
“The dishwasher, the washing machine and the pill were supposed to liberate us from something, but the superduper Internet, alone among the great 20th-century technologies, has really nailed it. A woman of any ideological disposition or domestic arrangement must answer her e-mail.”
How Chris Messina Got a Job at Google
By MARSHALL KIRKPATRICK of ReadWriteWeb
Published: January 7, 2010
NYTimes.com
“In September [Chris] Messina was making the rounds, talking to a variety of companies in Silicon Valley and told a friend at Google that he was considering joining a big company as his next step. His Google contact told him that the company had a strong preference for hiring engineers, rather than people with the [design[ skills that Messina has.“
“Over the next few months a few other companies offered Messina positions, he said, but then his old Google contact pinged him again and asked if he was still interested in joining Google.”
“What had changed? His contact told him that Google was placing a new emphasis on getting the social web right, in a way that is good for the web.”
'Smart Phone' Is a Misnomer: It's a Computer, Not a Phone
By ALEX WILLIAMS of ReadWriteWeb
Published: January 7, 2010
NYTimes.com
“The real challenge for the enterprise is to shift its thinking about how it will move beyond the carriers and one day become an entirely data-centric organization - an organization that gives information workers the ability to work entirely on an IP infrastructure...”
U.S. Bankers Are Fed Up With British Regulations
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Published: January 10, 2010
NYTimes.com
“LONDON — A tough new requirement by Britain’s securities regulator that top banking executives and earners must defer 60 percent of their total compensation for a three-year period is pushing some American banks with extensive London operations to say that they just won’t take it anymore.”
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