Technology Today
I write the weekly “Technology Today” column for the
Florida Today newspaper, which is published by Gannett. The column appears every Friday in the Business section of the paper.
2016 Columns
- Looking back at 2016: Artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity (Dec. 30)
- Alexa, Dot and mom get along famously (Dec. 23)
- Emojis displacing words on the web (Dec. 16)
- Moving ahead: Big data went mainstream in 2016 (Dec. 9)
- TV-to-real life technology: Tilley giving talk on 'Star Trek's 50th anniversary (Dec. 2)
- Be thankful for the friends in your life – digital or otherwise (Nov. 25)
- Dangers of AI are all too real without treaty on limitations (Nov. 18)
- On election night: TV or not TV was the question (Nov. 11)
- Polling data sometimes can swing and whiff (Nov. 4)
- What would you do for a five-star review? (Oct. 28)
- Programming languages: From simple to complex (Oct. 21)
- Burning phone impacts Samsung bottom line (Oct. 14)
- What’s Apple without Steve Jobs in charge (Oct. 7)
- Musk makes Mars trip seem attainable: Let’s go (Sept. 30)
- Take the slow boat to increased productivity (Sept. 23)
- Driverless vehicles will face challenges (Sept. 16)
- IPhone 7 changes won’t please all (Sept. 9)
- Life in post-jobs society may not be enjoyable (Sept. 2)
- Life might not turn out as we imagine seeing it (August 26)
- Fictional space speeds warp the reality of physics (August 19)
- ‘Star Trek’ officers didn’t make flip-phone calls (August 12)
- ‘Star Trek’ has many marvels and lessons (August 5)
- AC, water, power help tech deal with the heat (July 29)
- Uber effect changes the way we get around town (July 22)
- Fear of reprisal keeps ideas in box (July 15)
- Napster: What has changed in 15 years? (July 8)
- UK’s technology won’t disappear after Brexit (July 1)
- Watson's cognitive abilities grow daily (June 24)
- In a new car, radios aren’t just for news, pop music (June 17)
- Reflections on changes over past 60 years (June 10)
- Low-tech to the rescue when phone takes a dive (June 3)
- Technology plays key role in summer reading (May 27)
- Tech books require a lot of editing to stay current (May 20)
- Ransomware: 1 click can lock you out of your files (May 13)
- Computing finds its way into wide range of STEM education (May 6)
- Never say goodbye to your pets or people? (April 29)
- Apple has a handle on electronic junk disposal (April 22)
- Automated assistants anticipate users’ needs (April 15)
- Artificial Evolution II: Robots making robots (April 8)
- April Fools: Which tech stories are real and which are fake? (April 1)
- Despite their limits, tweets fill communication niche (March 25)
- Tech tools help tech writers write better (March 18)
- This week’s technical milestones: telephone, hypertext and email (March 11)
- What can the government learn from industry? (March 4)
- These 3 skills are vital to engineers on rise (Feb. 26)
- Apple security vs. national security (Feb. 19)
- Exercise tech can send wrong Feb. 14 message (Feb. 12)
- Facebook Turns 12: Social media adolescence (Feb. 5)
- Computing world has lost a pair of pioneers in the past 2 weeks (Jan. 29)
- The value of the webinar or ‘eating own dog food’ (Jan. 22)
- After you lose your data, it’s too late to back it up (Jan. 15)
- Roll-up TVs are just the start of the smart material revolution (Jan. 8)
- Three things that will NOT happen this year (Jan. 1)