Gearheads will certainly know about the Wankel engine, others might recognize it as the powerplant in certain Mazda automobiles, but did you know Wankels were also used in motorcycles? I remember reading about the Norton bikes but there were a … Read More
In the first day following the earthquake and tsunami workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant made a valiant effort to prevent disaster. They almost succeeded.
A new study suggests very few startup businesses are dynamic. I worked for a couple of small tech businesses over the years. Neither was a big innovator. One was in telecom and I worked on devices to extract call information … Read More
SF author Neal Stephenson, who grew up when I did, looks at what’s happening (or not) with innovation and decides our fear of uncertainty and focus on short-term results is killing innovation. Yeah, we’re both grumpy old men in that … Read More
Cringely on HP: “Though confirmed by this week’s HP decisions to change direction and ditch the PC business, let’s understand something: the HP I knew died many years ago.” I know I seem obsessed with HP lately, but you have to … Read More
Steve Denning, writing in Forbes, explains Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In the USA. Please read this article. Then read it again. Then read parts 2 and 3 twice. I’ve been talking about this for years but it takes a … Read More
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