by Erik Kain on November 27, 2011
If you’re thinking about buying a gaming console on Cyber Monday or getting one as a Christmas gift, you might want to take a look at the upcoming Wii U which is hitting shelves in 2012. The innovative controller alone makes you wonder if it’s worth waiting for the new console before purchasing anything in [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 13, 2011
Panelists at Techonomy make their case for optimism and their enthusiasm is contagious, but human and institutional nature should make skeptics of us all. Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization. And technology is changing the world more rapidly now than ever [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 17, 2011
Outside of its remarkable sales, the real star of the iPhone 4S show has been Siri, Apple’s new voice recognition software. The intuitive voice recognition software is the closest to A.I. we’ve seen on a smartphone to date. Over the weekend I noted that Siri has some resemblance to the IBM supercomputer, Watson, and speculated [...]
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