The day the U.S. entered World War I a century ago, April 6, 1917, Woodrow Wilson also ended all amateur radio broadcasting in America for more than two years. I told this story on the CTA i3 Blog, which you can read here, and how the ban birthed the modern consumer electronics industry.
Believe it or not, there is a somewhat timely pattern to the historical disruption caused by technology advances. Let’s call the individual technology advances the trees, and the profound business and societal impacts from those advances the forest.
Individually, these advances may not do much to challenge the status quo, but together, in a compressed timeline, they can radically change the business and social landscape to create a whole new timberland.
You can find the bulk of the stories I’ve been writing and will be writing on smart home technologies for Gear Brain, a new IoT site for consumers, here.
My report on some of the electronic and digital goodies I found wandering around Toy Fair, which you can read on Huffington Post here.
More reasons to delay your purchase of a 4K TV, which you can read at Huffington Post here.
A new administration in Washington means a new FCC commissioner, which means different communications policies, which could mean threats to an open Internet and “net neutrality.” Read why here.
After experiencing CES, one gets the feeling that consumers are being inundated with too much new technology, far too much to comprehend or adopt. Read why here.
My analysis of the growth of the smart home market for the CES issue of TWICE, which you can read here.
At CES, appliance makers are making a concerted effort to bridge this proactive-reactive gap by upping their 2017 appliance intelligent quotient. Read about the smartest appliances at the show here.
