Feb 11, 2025 | AI, Google, Microsoft
Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are...
Dec 3, 2024 | business, Google, Internet
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In...
Oct 1, 2024 | AI, books, Google
Take a minute – literally just one minute – and listen to the beginning of one of these podcast conversations about recent books. Each is about ten minutes long but just listen to the first minute of one of them to get the idea. I’ll wait. Veilpiercer by Bruce...
Aug 13, 2024 | AI, Amazon, Android, Apple, business, Google, Microsoft, search
AI arrived so quickly! You can be forgiven for not knowing how to interpret what’s going on in the tech industry. In 2024, AI combines massive investments with unrealistic hype. It appears to be a bubble with no practical applications, like pet rocks, Tamagotchis, and...
Sep 1, 2023 | augmented reality, Facebook, Google, hardware, virtual reality
In the last article we talked about Xreal Air glasses and competitors. They look like sunglasses but when you put them on you can see a giant screen in the air a few feet in front of you, as if you’re sitting in a movie theater. As promised, Lenovo just formally...
Aug 26, 2023 | augmented reality, Facebook, Google, hardware, Lenovo, virtual reality
You can buy glasses today that show you a huge screen hanging in the air a few feet in front of you. The display is crisp and clear. It looks like you’re watching a movie or playing a game on a 300-inch TV. Add some earbuds and the experience of sitting in a cramped...
