I have been on a riff lately, trying to find ways to upend the status-quo and try doing something different.
My opportunity came.
Last week the The New York Post decided to erect a paywall for anyone trying to visit their site on an iPad to view their content. I don't find paywalls to be intrinsically wrong, it's just that discriminating based upon the type of the device was an odd choice. You gotta make money somehow-- I get that--and maybe the NYP thinks this is one way to monetize their newspaper business in an increasingly digital world. However, pissing...
At work we were discussing the topic of the 'fathers of technology'. The question posed was who we considered those to be. There were quite a few responses which tossed out some of the most important technologists of our time, but they invariably centered around break-through modern technologies. One could say that I look for a reason to be 'different', so I decided to center my opinions around those that had pioneered the way for technologies to emerge and florish.
Innovations are deeply rooted in the necessity of solving a problem. Others come at whimsical moments. No matter their genesis, in...