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Predictions
The Pulpit
December 2002
December 26, 2002
When Is 64 Not Two Times 32?: How AMD 64-bit Processor Technology is About to Triumph Over Intel
December 19, 2002
Go to the Back of the Bus: Intel's Plan to Crush Competitors by Making More and More of Your Next PC
December 12, 2002
Curtain Call: Finally, a Business Model for Music in the Internet Age, and Why the Music Industry Probably Won't Go for It
December 5, 2002
I'm With the Band: Reader Reflections on Peer-to-Peer and Big Media
November 2002
November 28, 2002
Resistance is Futile: How Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Is Likely to Change Big Media
November 21, 2002
Upgrade Denied: If Comdex is a Drag and the Christmas Quarter is a Bustfor PC Companies, Maybe We Just Don't Need That New PC
November 14, 2002
Get a Life (Which One?): A Real Battle is Brewing in the World of Everquest
November 7, 2002
The True Believer: Can Mike Doyle Do to Microsoft What the Rest of the Computer Industry and the Department of Justice Couldn't Do?
October 2002
October 31, 2002
Let's Get Small: Maybe the Best Place to do Basic Research is in Bob's Garage
October 24, 2002
The Case Against Professionalism: How We Have Managed Industry Almost to Death
October 17, 2002
Running Scared: Why Science Needs Us to be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
October 10, 2002
Eating Our Seed Corn: How We'll Be Hurt in the Long Run by Declining Basic Research. Also, Help Bob Predict 2003!
October 3, 2002
When and Where: A Decade Into the World Wide Web, We Still Don't Generally Know How Old Information Is or Where Users and Servers Reside in the World
September 2002
September 26, 2002
Steal This Column: Criticism Won't Change the DMCA, but Breaking the Law Will
September 19, 2002
We Can Run, but We Can't Hide: How BayTSP is Enforcing the Digital Millennium
September 12, 2002
Bob Tube: Yes, Virginia, There Will be a NerdTV
September 5, 2002
Invincible: How Microsoft and Wal-Mart Can Lose, but Can't Be Beaten
August 2002
August 29, 2002
What's in Store: How IBM's Departure From the Disk Drive Business is Likely to Change an Entire Industry
August 22, 2002
High ASPirations: Why Application Service Providers are still a good idea
August 15, 2002
Plug Me In: Ever Hear of a HomePlug Network? You Will
August 8, 2002
Good News!: Tired of Negativism, Bob Looks Into the Future and Sees Ubiquitous Computing That Not Even Microsoft Can Control
August 1, 2002
License to Pay: Management Changes are Coming to U.S. Intelligence and the Spooks Don't Like It
July 2002
July 25, 2002
The EBay Way: How Auction Sites Like EBay Turn Retail Economics on Its Ear for the Betterment of Just About Everybody
July 18, 2002
Rosetta Stone: What If Palladium Doesn't Work?
July 11, 2002
A Hollywood Ending: Does Microsoft Really Care About Protecting the Entertainment Industry?
July 4, 2002
Stream On: As Bob's Online Video Premiere Approaches, He Is Beginning to Have Delusions of Grandeur. Also, Stupid Microsoft Tricks
June 2002
June 27, 2002
I Told You So: Alas, a Couple of Bob's Dire Predictions Have Come True
June 20, 2002
Is a Little Broadband Enough?: Covad Seems to Think So. Also, Why Microsoft Keeps Getting Sued
June 13, 2002
Flying Blind: How Obfuscation Is Emerging as a Technology That Is Critical to .NET, Yet Somehow Not Owned by Microsoft
June 6, 2002
Running Interference: There's a Big Threat to 802.11b Networking, Yet Nobody Seems to Care — Here's Why
May 2002
May 30, 2002
MEMS the Word: Why Your Next Computer Display Might Be an Empty Box
May 23, 2002
Diskless in Detroit: Why Your New Car Doesn't Have a Built-in PC
May 16, 2002
The Bandwidth Game: Broadband Providers are Finding New Ways to Take More of Your Money
May 9, 2002
Breaking the Bank: How Softbank is Betting Everything on Bringing Broadband to Japan
May 2, 2002
Chase 2.0: Is that a supercomputer in your jammies?
April 2002
April 25, 2002
Chase Cringely: Finding Meaning in a Lost Life
April 11, 2002
Invisible Giant: How the SAS Institute makes tons of money solving business problems most companies don't even know they have
April 4, 2002
The Recession is Over: Information Technology is Leading Us Back to Prosperity, but Let's Hope the Cure Isn't Worse Than the Disease
March 2002
March 28, 2002
On With the Show: Downloadable Video Cringely is on His Way
March 21, 2002
Out of the Pulpit and Into the Fire: Is the World Ready for a Cringely Open Source TV Show?
March 14, 2002
Lessons From History: Why This May Be the Best Time to Start a Bootstrap Internet Business No Matter What Your Level of Experience
March 7, 2002
Full Speed Ahead!: Why Microsoft is Thumbing Its Nose at the Courts and Will Probably Get Away With It
February 2002
February 28, 2002
In the Eye of the Beholder: Why the Best Device for Streaming Video Might Be a Mobile Phone
February 21, 2002
Internet Radio is Dead. Long Live Internet Radio!: A U.S. Government Panel Has Recommended a Royalty System That Will Probably Kill Internet Radio and Make Possible a Better System to Follow
February 14, 2002
The Power of X: How the Best Thing for Apple, for Users, and Even for Microsoft, Would Be an Intel Version of OS X
February 7, 2002
Bank Shot: Not Even a Mountain Can Get in the Way of Bob's Search for Faster Internet Service
January 2002
January 31, 2002
Soon, It's Gonna Rain: A New Modulation Technology Promises to Turn Your Cable TV Connection Into a 10 Gigabit-Per-Second Digital Fire Hose
January 24, 2002
The 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Carburetor: How Ultra Wide Band May (or May Not) Change the World
January 17, 2002
Trust me, I'm From Microsoft: What's Really Behind Microsoft's New Commitment to Data Security
January 10, 2002
The Best Revenge: Why the New iMacs Will Be Successful No Matter What They Look Like
January 3, 2002
The 70 Percent Solution: Bob's Predictions for 2002