SunPass is a mess. Florida could have seen it coming.
— Read on www.tampabay.com/news/business/tourism/SunPass-is-a-mess-Florida-could-have-seen-it-coming-_169961974
Watch your SunPass bills!
–KEN OLSEN, PRESIDENT OF DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION IN 1977
Ken Olsen was the co-founder and CEO of Digital (also known as Digital Equipment Corporation, or DEC), a company launched out of an old wool mill in Massachusetts in 1957, which at its peak the late 1980s was the number two computer company in the United States with sales revenues of $14 billion.
Digital faltered in the 1990s, however; in 1992 Olsen was replaced as CEO, and in 1998 the company was sold to Compaq (which in turn was bought up by Hewlett-Packard in 2002). Part of the reason for Digital’s downfall is often blamed on Olsen’s failure to anticipate or understand the burgeoning personal computer market, a failure supposedly exemplified by his having disparaged the PC as something no individual needed to have in his home.
During a talk at a 1977 meeting of the World Future Society in Boston, Olsen reportedly said he saw “no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a statement that was supposedly publicized quite widely when Time magazine repeated it.
IHOP said on its IHOB Twitter account that the new name was just a gimmick to promote its burgers.
— Read on fortune.com/2018/07/09/ihob-ihop-rebranding-gimmick-scam/
You’ve been punked!
I bought this and have found it helpful already.
MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS: Thesauruses, Plots, Character Traits, Names, and More…
By: @BrynDonovan
This helpful guide makes “show, don’t tell” much easier and helps you figure out your story more quickly. In this book, you’ll find:
• lists of phrases for describing facial expressions, body language, gestures, physical appearance, and emotions
• 175 master plot ideas, including romance, high-stakes, family, and workplace stories
• lists of words for writing action scenes and love scenes
• inspiration for figuring out character traits and quirks, backstories, occupations, motivations, and goals
• lists for describing settings and writing dialogue
• lists of good character names for contemporary stories…plus medieval England, Regency England, Wild West, and WWII settings
• and more!
Whether you’re writing novels or short fiction, screenwriting, or any other kind of storytelling, MASTER LISTS FOR WRITERS is a rich source of inspiration you’ll turn to again and again.
Can you beat the algorithms and brain pollution?
We’re not confined to what’s in our newsfeeds — we can use search engines to validate what’s real or not at any time. And while Google’s own algorithms exert influence, we can dig and compare beyond a single source or platform.
medium.com/@armano/dont-quit-social-media-it-s-time-to-take-the-power-back-ef7269a3c83b
“$500 for a fully subsidized cellphone with a plan? That is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.”
–STEVE BALLMER (Microsoft CEO) ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FIRST IPHONE
“TWO YEARS FROM NOW, SPAM WILL BE SOLVED.”
–BILL GATES AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IN 2004
Ahhh… Bill? Most of our email is spam. It’s 2018.
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