A few weeks ago, I wrote about the derivative nature of today’s media. “That’s why we get Mission Impossible 43 which looks like Bourne 29 which feels just like James Bond 61. We get reboots of any show our parents watched.” Turns out the story is far deeper, more...

The other day, my friend, Paul, asked me if AI was going to harm Google? Is Google losing the AI war? Are they falling behind others in AI? Some folks he knows in San Fran think they see cracks in what had been Google’s impenetrable armor. My answers were — in order —...

There hasn’t been a trial this derivative since Jonathan Scopes taught evolution to Tennessee kids in 1925. The outcome of that monkey trial was a foregone conclusion. Scopes broke the law, admitted it, got fined, and the Baltimore Sun* paid it. The case was far more...

VCM&A sounds like an amalgam fit for a holding company. Not this time. It’s my shorthand for Venture Capital Merger & Acquisition. What is going on in startup land? Two words: zombie apocalypse. This year, more than three thousand companies that raised $27.2...

I’m not an engineer. My dad is. He can build anything because he knows how things work. I was like that kid in the Breakfast Club movie who couldn’t make the elephant’s nose light go on. My circuit lead to Rudolph. Even with a bottle of hootch my glom of wires...