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Trust and Democracy: The Odd Parallels between Trump and Apple
Albert Wenger – Feb 24, 2016
Confidence in the US Congress is near an all time low according to a Gallup poll on “Confidence in Institutions.” People have stopped trusting government. And government has done a lot to deserve it. Politicians have taken huge sums of [...] Read more
Key-Based Device Unlocking (Question/Idea re Apple Case)
Albert Wenger – Feb 17, 2016
There is a ton of confusion out there about Apple’s refusal to comply with a court order. The most level headed account I have been able to find is by the Register and I highly recommend reading it. The question [...] Read more
Possible Recession and Operational Excellence in Tech
Albert Wenger – Feb 12, 2016
I have not been blogging much because I have been working on my book, but many people have asked me about the markets. So here are my thoughts. Much of the recovery in the labor market since 2008 had been [...] Read more
The Future of Programming
Albert Wenger – Feb 3, 2016
I learned how to program on this Apple II over 30 years ago. Over that time period – as a first approximation – programming has stayed the same. Yes, I have learned new tools and new programming languages, but programming [...] Read more
Even If You Could Use 100% of your Brain, Machines Will Still Beat You (not just at Go)
Albert Wenger – Jan 28, 2016
So I admit that I enjoyed watching Lucy, the Luc Besson movie with Scarlett Johanssen as the eponymous Lucy, who by virtue of an inadvertent overdose of a designer drug manages to use 100% of her brain capacity. She turns [...] Read more
Foursquare: Building the Business
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2016
We first invested in Foursquare in 2009 when the company was just getting going because we believed that location was a native aspect of smartphones. Since then our conviction about the importance of location to the mobile experience has continued [...] Read more
Basic Income Update
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2016
Regular readers of Continuations know that I have been writing a fair bit about Basic Income and have also given several talks including Techonomy Detroit and TEDxNY. I started thinking about Basic Income after writing a series of posts about [...] Read more
David Bowie
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2016
Much like everyone else I woke up this morning to the news that David Bowie has passed away. I was not an ardent Bowie fan but had always been impressed by just how innovative he was, not just musically but [...] Read more
Android Phone: My First Malware Experience
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2016
My primary phone has been an Android phone for a long time. This is mostly for philosophical reasons as I highly value general purpose computing. The ability to easily execute any code on a device that I have purchased is [...] Read more