Monthly Archives: January 2016

Inside Forbes: From “Original Sin” to Ad Blockers — And What The Future Holds

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It was my first day of class as a first-time Skype instructor, so I got right to it: “How many of you pay for content?” I asked a dozen or so University of Iowa journalism students as the fall semester got under way at my alma mater. Two, maybe three, gently raised an arm. Then came my follow-up question: “How many of you use ad blockers?” Nearly everyone put a hand straight up, proudly admitting to installing software that snuffs out display ads from their daily Web browsing experience. “That’s wonderful,” I said. “You don’t want to pay for content and you don’t want to see the ads that fund the content you don’t want to pay for. You might want to consider another profession.”

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With GM-Lyft Deal, The Race To Build Robot Cars Just Shifted Into Higher Gear

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GM’s investment in Lyft shows the race to build autonomous cars is accelerating. In valuing the second-place rideshare company so highly, GM is betting Lyft will compete in a much bigger arena: The one where on-demand, robotic transportation comes to replace car ownership. Let the battle begin.

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How To Rescue A Dead Mainframe Programmer

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There’s a problem in IT. All the older guys (sadly, not enough of them were women) who know how to get their hands dirty inside the mainframe systems of the past are retiring. That would be okay if the mainframes were all being decommissioned too, but there’s the new thing called cloud computing and… ah-hem, actually, new and existing mainframe server systems are rather well suited to large-scale datacenter type environments.

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