Viewpoint: Our favorite electronic products
Our favorite electronic products In the normal course of producing this magazine we cover the sort of electronic products that go into end products, notContinue
Editor’s Perspective
Viewpoint: Engineers of destruction
Engineers of destruction “From the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function
Viewpoint: Are you being served?
Are you being served? I think it was former New York City Mayor Ed Koch who would greet passers-by on the streets with “How amContinue
Viewpoint: Still crazy about electronics after all these years
Still crazy about electronics after all these years When I was 13 or so my parents gave me a science-kit-of-the-month subscription and for a yearContinue
Viewpoint: A glimmer of hope on courtroom junk science
A glimmer of hope on courtroom junk science In a Viewpoint in February 1998, I raised the issue “what questions can jurors reasonably decide?” andContinue
Viewpoint: In praise of the power supply
In praise of the power supply Since this is our annual power supply issue, it behooves us to examine the issue of power. As isContinue
Viewpoint: It’s all software
It's all software Sometimes a concept can be so oversold and oft-repeated that it loses its impact. The convergence of consumer electronics is one ofContinue
Viewpoint: I discovered Napster last week
I discovered Napster last week Until last week, I had never opened a music-sharing Web site. Prior to that I believed that people who sharedContinue
Viewpoint: Are we being served yet?
Are we being served yet? As an assistant editor of this magazine, I spend much of my time trying to contact product manufacturers or theirContinue
Viewpoint: Selling short the digital revolution
Selling short the digital revolution Technoskeptic. I had never heard the term before until I came across it recently in an op-ed piece in TheContinue