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Predictions
The Pulpit
December 2003
December 25, 2003
You Can't Get There From Here: Why No Single Networking Technology Is Adequate
December 18, 2003
Patently Absurd: Why Simply Making Spam Illegal Won't Work
December 11, 2003
Follow the Money: Why the Best Voting Technology May Be No Technology at All
December 4, 2003
No Confidence Vote: Why the Current Touch Screen Voting Fiasco Was Pretty Much Inevitable
November 2003
November 27, 2003
Digital Hubris: Apple's Tablet Computer Might Finally Be That Link Between Your PC and TV
November 20, 2003
Natural Deselection: Not Even Microsoft Will Last Forever, but They Plan to Try
November 13, 2003
The First Time is Free: Microsoft's Peculiar Profit Obsession, .NET, and What It All Really Means
November 6, 2003
Hot Stuff: Why Heat is the Enemy of Server Farms and Sometimes Less Power Means More
October 2003
October 30, 2003
Catch the Wave: Why the Next Big Wave of Computing Might Be Inspired by Bees
October 23, 2003
Unplugged: How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All
October 16, 2003
No Feather in Our CAPPS: How We Are About to Spend a Lot of Money and (Again) Alienate Our Allies by Building a Computer System That Invades Privacy and Does Nothing to Make Us More Secure
October 9, 2003
I'm With Stupid: How Having Friends Might Be the Key to Both Privacy and Identity
October 2, 2003
Changing the Game: How to Save the World by Taking Back Control of Our Data
September 2003
September 25, 2003
Taguchi Me This: How Two Guys From the Gold Country Are Changing Advertising Forever
September 18, 2003
Ego, Super-ego, and ID Theft: Why Identity Theft is Only Likely to Get Worse, not Better
September 11, 2003
How to Steal $65 Billion: Why Identity Theft is a Growth Industry
September 4, 2003
The Innovators' Ball: Why Business Isn't as Fun as it Used to be
August 2003
August 28, 2003
Stupid Microsoft Tricks: Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat
August 21, 2003
Stream on: How Microsoft, on the Brink of Defeat, Could Still Win the Streaming Video War
August 14, 2003
May the Source Be With You: IT Productivity Doesn't Have to Be an Oxymoron, but Outsourcing Isn't the Way to Achieve It
August 7, 2003
Body Count: Why Moving to India Won't Really Help IT
July 2003
July 24, 2003
Son of Napster: One Possible Future for a Music Business That Must Inevitably Change
July 17, 2003
Voter Flawed: A Follow-Up on Several Back Columns and Can Diebold Voting Machines Really Be Hacked?
July 10, 2003
Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Grandiose Schemes for Electronic Eavesdropping May Hurt More Than They Help
July 3, 2003
And Now for Something Completely Different: How DTMD Could Save Your Local Phone Company
June 2003
June 26, 2003
Sucking Through a Straw: A Bandwidth Drought Is Coming, And U.S. Phone Companies and ISPs Have No Idea What To Do About It
June 19, 2003
What Goes Around Comes Around: The Only Clear Winner in This SCO Versus IBM Case is Microsoft
June 12, 2003
Twice As Much Nothing to Watch on TV: How Ultra Wide Band Networking May Change Cable TV; Also, How SCO Unix May, Itself, Have Code Ripped-Off From Both Linux and BSD Unix
June 5, 2003
Technician, Steal Thyself: SCO, Not IBM, May Have Put Unix Code Into Linux Instead?
May 2003
May 29, 2003
Going for a Streak-Free Finish: Will Microsoft's Answer to Linux Be Windex Instead?
May 22, 2003
Why Don't You and He Fight?: SCO Seems to Have Lost Its Senses, and I Think Microsoft Is Behind It
May 15, 2003
The Eyes Have It: Iris Recognition Could Mean the End of Physical Privacy
May 8, 2003
Refactoring Refactoring: Sometimes (Even in Computer Programming) What Everyone Knows Isn't Always Correct
May 1, 2003
May the Source Be With You: Maybe One Key to Strengthening Open Source is Just Differentiating Between Work and Play
April 2003
April 24, 2003
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: If You Think Microsoft Can’t Undermine Open Source, You Are Wrong
April 17, 2003
What's Going On: Why Apple (or Microsoft) Buying Universal Music is a Bad Idea
April 10, 2003
Out of the Mouths of Dogs: Bob Finds a Few Facts That Simply Don't Compute
April 3, 2003
The Future of TV: A Lot of Little Things are Going to Mean Big Changes for Television
March 2003
March 27, 2003
Life With TiVo: Why Television Will Never Be the Same
March 20, 2003
The Mother of All Spamkillers: It Took Three Weeks, but Bob Has the Final Solution for Personal Spam Protection. Really.
March 13, 2003
For a Nickel I Will: Bob's Ultimate Anti-Spam Solution
March 6, 2003
Collateral Damage: Why Most Internet Advertising Doesn't Work and What Little Does Work Is Killing Us
February 2003
February 27, 2003
Game On!: How Enbaya's ProGATE Could Change the World of Video Gaming
February 20, 2003
Your Spreadsheet is Calling: How CastBridge Promises to Bring Accountability to Business
February 13, 2003
Sunset: How to Avoid the Almost Certain End of Sun Microsystems
February 6, 2003
Earthlink Wants Total Access (to Your PC): Why Earthlink's Pop-Up Blocker is Very, Very Bad. Also, the SBC Frames Patents Go Down the Drain
January 2003
January 30, 2003
We've Been Framed!: Readers Respond With Prior Art Invalidating the SBC Web Patent
January 23, 2003
SBC Wants Your Money: How I, Cringely Readers Can Overturn an Unpopular Patent
January 16, 2003
What Lies Beneath: Why Microsoft Should Build Its Next Version of Windows on Top of Linux
January 9, 2003
Free Flight: Why Apple is Pulling Away From Microsoft and Can't Afford Not to Do It
January 2, 2003
More of the Same: Bob's Predictions for 2003