Occupation: Writer Birth: March 9, 1963
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything..
Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone ….
There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with ….
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it..
If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest..
People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit..
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it..
Today, there are over 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world. They may sound different, but in every case, they're drawing on the same regions o….
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would b….
Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones?.
Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol..
For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”.
The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. F….
One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch..
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths..
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, w….
The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!.
Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never..
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e….
The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the ….
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years..