Month: April 2025

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Let me begin by saying that you should never make an important decision based solely on information you get from an AI chatbot like […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News In 2009, Wired Magazine published an article called Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain, 24/7/365. It was […]

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and the late Paul Allen founded Microsoft. A half century later, it’s one of the […]

By Lawrence J. Magid January 15, 1995 First published in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. A guy named Bob just moved into my house. He doesn’t really have a last name but he’s […]