Operating System State Part II: Internet platform Internet Wars handicap As I wrote last month, is becoming increasingly clear that the Internet is simply a platform, but an OS, an operating system that manages access by devices such as personal computers, phones and other personal electronic devices to cloud computing subsystems, storage and communications to the location, identity, social graph, research, and payment. The question is …
The 1980′s

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Flotsam $7.49 A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam–anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there’s no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep.In each of his amazing …