Category: Business

October, 2017 I once wrote an ad with this (accurate) headline: If the auto industry had done what the computer industry has done in the last 30 years, a Rolls Royce would cost $2.50 and get two million miles per gallon. I was eight in 1951 when the first commercial computer, the Univac I, was…

March, 2015 When I was young and foolish (late 70s), I invested in a fishing boat. A kid who had worked for me at Computerworld, Brian Sweeney, decided that he never wanted to see a desk again and headed off for a life of fishing. A couple of years later, after working his way up…