People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.
I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization.
I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
Whoever said "The hand that holds a book cannot hold a gun" never worked for CIA Tech Ops.
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.
I can't really speak to the other parts of the economy, but what I think is very true of the tech world is that it's easy for talented people - whatever their gender, age, or race - to rise up and succeed.
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
