The Internet’s Vanishing Point?
Technologies only become truly integrated into society when they move from requiring forethought to becoming an afterthought. It's the progression of all innovations and it's now happening to how we...
View ArticleAre We Struggling To Value Unicorns?
We’ve abandoned time-honored valuation techniques from the past because they didn’t work for new rapid-growth, tech-driven businesses. But what if the new rule book was equally inept? As a lover of...
View ArticleFrom Digital Disappointment ToThe End Of The App Era, Here Are Eight Trends...
The reality is that we live on the edges of profound new technologies that could each individually changes everything or come together and change nothing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
View ArticleA Guiding Light Into The Future Of Marketing
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a feast to the eyes, but an overload of the senses. Separating the profound from the gimmicks and the trends from the distractions is vital, but hard. For me,...
View ArticleWith another Apple failure, it’s time to forget about hardware
The lesson is this: we shouldn’t be focusing on hardware anymore. Perhaps instead we need to focus on what happens when hardware and software come together. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
View ArticleWelcome to the post-app world?
As instant messaging and voice control takes off, it increasingly seems that apps are not the solution for everything. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleThe tipping point for rebellion
We are all getting lazy and spoiled. We’re not choosing simple over better, but easy over passably good. We’re self-sabotaging ourselves because effort is a price too great for anything. © 2024...
View ArticleThe three ages of digital
We need to see the world in these three phases: before a full immersion of digital communications technology; when such technologies have faded into the background; and the mess between the two. © 2024...
View ArticleThe future is a smarter world of dumber devices
In the early 2000s, we lived in an era of expensive storage and slow connectivity. Those of us tasked with predicting the future faced a dilemma: Would processing and storage get so cheap that each and...
View ArticleWe’re at peak complexity — and it sucks
Virtually all companies are doing digital transformation wrong. We’re placing it around the edge, keeping it at arm’s length, like it’s a problem and not an opportunity. If companies are to succeed, we...
View ArticleWhen every company is a tech company, valuations go insane
Users, subscribers, growth, global expansion, minimal marginal costs, the promise of future success; this all sounds a bit like the verbiage of a tech company -- and that’s because the industry has...
View ArticleInnovation is in all the wrong places
I live a pretty cosmopolitan futuristic life atop a glass skyscraper in New York City, but I’ve yet to get a pizza delivered by drone, order a taxi from Alexa or open a hotel door with my smartwatch....
View ArticleThe Future of TV isn’t apps
We’re in the mid-digital age, but we live with the legacy of analog systems, technology and thinking that's only embellished by the technologies of our new era. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
View Article5G promises to transform the world again
We may be on the cusp of a new, simpler world. From the current era of “peak complexity”, this new era will produce a step-change in society. It builds a platform for growth while empowering the...
View ArticleIn the new age of ubiquitous connectivity the message is the medium
In the new internet age, contextual content is king and no single platform wears a crown. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleThe battle for consumers gets physical (instead of virtual)
The world’s largest taxi firm, Uber, is buying cars. The world’s most popular media company, Facebook, now commissions content. The world’s most valuable retailer is now Amazon, and has more than 350...
View ArticleAndrew Yang is running for President to save America from the robots
In the first episode of the new “Interesting People in Interesting Times” podcast, recorded March 5th Andrew Yang, tech entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and author of The War on Normal...
View ArticlePatterns, Predictability, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Think you’ve heard that song before? Were there more Jennifer’s or Jessica’s in your class at school? And what does this have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? In the latest episode of the...
View ArticleSocial media, politics, and the bubble of distraction
When the President changes our country so drastically, will we have a new concept of what’s normal? If our social media feeds consist of people who think just like us, how can we expect social change?...
View Article7 things to think about voice
Voice won't change everything but it will be part of a movement that heralds a new way to think about our relationship with devices, screens, our data and interactions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
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