Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the stakes have gotten smaller, the process more bureaucratized, and the personalities less interesting.

He was a peculiar guy. I'd never met him, just seen his picture and heard tell of him from the veterans of GEE's early days: And I'd seen him on film: sitting …

Both Penang and the Internet were established basically for strategic military reasons. In both cases, what was built by the military was merely a kernel for a…

There was a white man sitting at the kitchen table, warming his hands by wrapping them around a hot cup of tea. He had kind of an oblong face, curly red hair p…

Vannevar Bush is a great name for playing six degrees of separation. Turn back the clock on any aspect of information technology - from the birth of Silicon Va…

'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.'

Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.