Technologizer by Harry McCracken – A Smarter Take on Tech
5 days ago · Okay, maybe “lost” is overstating things. Still, I tend to forget about most of the stuff I write the moment I’m done with it. So I certainly don’t have vivid recollections of writing my weekly Technologizer column for TIME.com, which I did from September 2010 until February 2012.
About Technologizer and Harry
Photo by Marie Domingo I'm Harry McCracken, founder and editor of Technologizer. My life's work is helping people get more out of the technology in their lives, a job I'm very lucky to have. I started this site in 2008. From February 2012-May 2014, I …
Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible
Jun 8, 2011 · But greatness isn’t a popularity contest–not primarily one, at least. Maybe it has more to do with the concept expressed by Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law: making technology indistinguishable from magic.By that measure, I can’t think of a greater gadget than the SX-70 Land Camera, the instant camera that Polaroid introduced in April 1972.
Harry McCracken | Technologizer by Harry McCracken
Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn’t create the idea of computer magazines.But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business. In the 1970s, when David was working at pioneering PC company MITS, he published Computer Notes—as far as I know, the first periodical about the then-new devices known as microcomputers.
Osborne! - Technologizer by Harry McCracken
Apr 1, 2011 · Frustrated chemical engineer Adam Osborne left Shell in 1971 and quickly reinvented himself as successful technical writer Adam Osborne. He founded Osborne & Associates, a company which started out doing documentation and began publishing books about microcomputers in an era when hardly anyone had even heard of microcomputers; his best-known tome was 1975’s An Introduction to Microcomputers ...
The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's …
Jan 20, 2024 · Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn’t create the idea of computer magazines.But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business. In the 1970s, when David was working at pioneering PC company MITS, he published Computer Notes—as far as I know, the first periodical about the then-new devices known as microcomputers.
Behold the lost TIME.com Technologizer columns
Feb 29, 2024 · Okay, maybe "lost" is overstating things. Still, I tend to forget about most of the stuff I write the moment I'm done with it. So I certainly don't have vivid recollections of writing my weekly Technologizer column for TIME.com, which I did from September 2010 until February 2012. But when I was
The End of Computer Magazines in America
Apr 15, 2023 · The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines, both of which date to 1996 (and were originally known, respectively, as Boot and MacAddict).Starting with their next editions, both publications will be available in digital form only.
The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History - Technologizer by …
Nov 9, 2009 · It's not love, war, or baseball. But over the years some memorable things have been said about technology. Some have been memorably eloquent; others are unforgettably shortsighted, wrongheaded, or just plain weird. Let's celebrate them, shall we? A few ground rules for the list that follows: I considered only statements attributable to a specific individual,…
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Technologizer was founded in 2008, during the heyday of the tech blog, so we’re a bit old school here. And since most of my work is over at Fast Company these days, this place is not exactly a frenzy of fresh material. But if you’d like to pretend it’s a …