Friday’s Reflections, With Feeling Boardroom Drama at HPE, the Importance of Reading, and Qualified Praise for Voyeurism
The TikTok Mouse and the Elephant in The Room We’ve reached a point, here in the fast-moving eddies of the digital era, where snapshots of a given point in the space-time continuum are nearly impossible to capture. Time doesn’t present itself as an orderly sequence of discrete blips, like the ellipses that follow a stray thought, but
Quantum Mania: Amid the Present Puffery, A Seemingly Bright Future You could say that it’s the best of times, the worst of times, and practically the non-existent times for quantum computing. The sentence I’ve just typed is paradoxical, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. The information-technology industry seems to be forming a consensus that quantum computing
Getting It Right on Intel I’ve heard there was an election in the United States. You will find an abundance of commentary on the election results elsewhere, but don’t look for any of that prattle here. Almost everybody who provides a post-mortem on election results will attempt an analysis through a prism of
Why Intel’s Future is Unlikely to Include an Acquisition by Qualcomm Large parts of the technology industry would like to think of themselves as apolitical. Many denizens of the technology world might have no use for politics, but politics, especially of the geopolitical variety, unquestionably has use for many of them. As geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China intensify,