*|MC:SUBJECT|* Work for NICT, wireless carrier profitability, Japan: population to zero by 3000?; more – The Signal #6 Friends – Happy week after Thanksgiving. Black Friday was down, they say; San Francisco’s Union Square was full of deals; and parents now debate whether their kids (or they, or the FAA) are ready for drones, or […]
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THE SIGNAL ISSUE 5- Election Season, Student Inspiration, Hardware Prototyping, and more (03/11/15)
Election Season, Student Inspiration, Hardware Prototyping, and more- Signal #5 Friends – It’s November, which has brought some well-needed rain to the Bay Area. Still, #droughtshaming continues to be contemplated as a valid policy measure. We are not out of the woods. Let it rain! (We also suggest PSAs like this one with Captain […]
The Future of 3D Fabrication
This week, I attended a meet-up held by Maker Media at their Maker Media Lab in the innovation hangar at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Having been built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International exposition, the Palace housed some of the premier innovations for that time – an early cross-country telephone line and the first […]
THE SIGNAL ISSUE 4- Men, machines, and the industrial Internet(s) (15/10/15)
Autumn=the season of events- Signal #4 Men, machines, and the industrial Internet(s) Hello friends! First, some personal news: Jon turned 43 this week. It’s a nice prime number, even presidential. (And that president was Dubya. Interpret that as you will.) Also, it means he’s out of the 厄年(yakudoshi, i.e., “bad luck year”) age […]