I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBSI, Cringely is the blog of Robert X. Cringely. Copyright 2006 PBS Online.Nolo Contendere- May 30, 2008 Readers have been asking -- demanding even -- an update on Team Cringely, my plan to win the Google Lunar X Prize and give my kids an inheritance worth fighting over. So this week I have to announce that, alas, Team Cringely is no longer in competition for the Google Prize. But we're still going to the Moon. Huh The idea behind the Google Lunar X Prize was irresistible to me from the start. It was so audacious to think that private citizens could do what few governments had been able to do.http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080530_004991.html IT Wars- May 23, 2008 Last week's column on Gartner Inc. and the thin underbelly of IT was a hit, it seems, with very few readers rising to the defense of Gartner or the IT power structure in general. To be fair I probably should have said that Gartner isn't totally worthless, but I think their specialists should be more specialized and they shouldn't promote technologies or products without being darned familiar with them -- a lot more familiar than they seem to be at present. But the bigger question is why IT...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080523_004962.html Reality Check- May 16, 2008 I have this notion to write a series of columns from time to time under the title "Reality Check" -- columns intended to explain how the world of Information Technology actually functions. Because like any other entrenched, complex, and often closeted industry, things in IT don't really work the way many people think they do. I'm guessing the Vatican is a bit like that, too. So I'll be looking at various IT players and their roles and trying to put them into perspective, much as I did...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080516_004925.html Wimpy- May 9, 2008 Every few years I actually make a television show for PBS and one of those rare occurrences is coming this month with "The Transformation Age: Surviving a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringely." Because of PBS scheduling anarchy you'll have to check your local listings to see when the show is on. It is about the obvious realization that as Moore's Law changes technology, technology in turn changes society in ways that are not always predictable. We look into the past and then into the...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080509_004880.html Iron Man- May 2, 2008 There was a game we used to play in the office, years ago, casting a movie of our own lives. What well-known actor or actress would play you Who would play your friends The game eventually faded, as games always do, but at the time it was great fun. So let's try it again: who would you cast to play Steve Jobs of Apple Certainly not Noah Wyle, the only actor to actually play the Apple CEO. I've always thought there were elements of Jack Nicholson in Jobs, but Nicholson is too old for the...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080502_004815.html |