You know it’s a new world when …
When you are sitting on the can with a computer on your lap, attached to All Known Things (the Internet), and reading the Wall Street Journal online at 3 a.m.—and the subject is new cell phones dedicated purely to Skype … which can cut one’s (my!) mega-int’l phone bill upwards of 95%. New product idea, guys division: airport & restaurant urinals with embedded wi-fi/email capability.
(NB: Speaking of urinals, Urinetown may be the funniest-saddest-best play I’ve seen in a long time. Incidentally, I/we saw it at the Weston Playhouse in Weston, VT—one of those handful of amazing regional theaters where the quality of productions literally equals Broadway’s.) (NB: Speaking of TechTime, our new puppy has an implanted chip.)
Speaking again of TechWorld, on a flight from San Francisco, I ran into my pal Kevin Kelly, tech uber-guru and founding Wired editor and, far more important, incredibly good guy. It’s nice to see someone who’s not as young as he used to be still waaaay ahead of most everybody in what’s been declared (by me, among others) a “young man’s/woman’s game.” Kevin is also “one of those people” with whom, even though you haven’t seen ’em in 10 years, you take up the last conversation you had with them mid-sentence from where you left off.