I, Cringely https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html COVID-19 will Kill a Ton of Startups (or So it Will Seem) Mark Zuckerberg’s Pact with the Devil Starlink is a global ISP built at ZERO COST to SpaceX, enabling NASA’s Artemis launch Three Mile Island Lessons for COVID-19: FEMA and Me Half a dozen little 2021 predictions about life after COVID-19 2021 Prediction #5:  Apple (and maybe Google) saves the world How to quickly end the war in Ukraine with $10 laser pointers 2021 Prediction #2: Peak Facebook as Zuck runs out of role models What an Epidemic is Really Like Here’s why Putin won’t use nukes in Ukraine — Pass it on. Prediction #4 — Self-driving cars won’t happen this year no matter what Elon says If you want to reduce ChatGPT mediocrity, do it promptly Cringely’s Rules for Home Schooling in the Age of COVID-19 2020 Prediction: COVID-19 will suck like 9/11 2020 Brings the Death of IT Not dead yet! What Bob Cringely has been up to… 2020-21 is the asterisk academic year InsecureID: No more secrets? The Big Sky is Falling Putin plays his asshole card Tesla won the self-driving car war, they just aren’t telling us AI and Moore’s Law: It’s the Chips, Stupid What yesterday’s Apple satellite announcement really means 2019 Predictions #2 and #3 — A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) shakeout and legal trouble for AWS 2021 Prediction #4: WiFi 6 is a bust (for now) as Bufferbloat returns thanks to ISP greed Prediction #5 — Drones become Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood (PTTN) The Incentive Game Sometimes We Get Lucky: ProjectN95.org Paul Graham’s Legacy I have no boils 2021 Prediction #1: Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Bob’s 2021 Tech Predictions: What a Difference a Pandemic Makes President Trump thinks he can shut down WeChat: It won’t work Not Just the End of IT, the End of IT Contractors After switching to ARM, expect Apple to buy TSMC, too What about the layoffs at Meta and Twitter? Elon is crazy! WTF??? How to save 400,000 lives per year (four million in the world) Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose When is a no-fly zone not a no-fly zone? When it’s an airlift. My first two predictions for 2020 — IBM and Trump 2021 Prediction #3: Get ready for more GameStops as hedge funds are no longer the only bullies in town 10 years later Fukushima Daiichi still melts down my heart 2021 Prediction #6:  COVID-19, Clubhouse, and the Great High School Reset Looking back at Y2K from the Trump Era Einstein’s Fridge: Who knew the history of thermodynamics was so much like high school? COVID-19 Lessons from Three Mile Island #2 — the NRC Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won’t Tim Cook say that? Bob’s 9/11 post from 20 years ago — To a Man With a Hammer The Future of Television Apple’s Space Ambitions are Real