ROBIN RASKINMEDIATECHONOMY
The Stuff Shortage is a First World Problem
Shortages in the labor market; ports that can’t offload container ships; rising prices–it’s a...
Instagram for Kids: Doomed from the Start
Will Facebook continue wading into the quagmire of children’s digital content or double down on...
NFTs: Sh**t Show or Shift to A New Kind of Commerce?
NFTs are being touted as the cure for just about everything that can ail us. Not since the...
Robin’s Rules of Order: New Models for the Workplace
Now that we’ve bitten into the forbidden fruit of the work-from-home apple we have, as the...
Spiritual Opium: China Limits Kids’ Online Gaming Time
It’s been said that to really understand China you need to understand the Opium Wars. China lost...
Zoom Wants to Be the Center of Your Universe. What Could Go Wrong?
On August 24th Zoom experienced a significant worldwide outage. The Washington Post reports that...
Niantic Calls the Current Metaverse Dystopian
You can tell a metaverse newbie when they walk into a room, especially a digital one. And it’s...
The Shrink in Your Pocket Will See You Now
For the longest time I believed that giving a person suffering from mental health issues an app...
What the Moon and the Metaverse Have in Common
Lewis and Clark, Ernest Shackelton, Roald Amundsen — they just couldn’t sit still and not dream of...
Women’s Problems: Can FemTech Offer Relief?
Image courtesy of Clue Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, who writes regularly about the health care ecosystem on...
Techonomy’s Summer Reading List
You may be so busy getting back to the new normal that you haven’t had time to settle down with a...
Workers Unite
Now that they’ve tasted the sweet cheese of working from home, the rat race has less appeal. When...
Now that we can measure everything, do you feel you’re not measuring up?
First it was steps … I counted them religiously, often falling short of my goal. Then came sleep....
Breaking Up (Companies) is Hard to Do–But It Does Happen
The backdrop was the 1980’s. The Reagan years. It’s a tale of two companies– AT&T and IBM. ...
An Ode to the Business Card
What’s 3 ½ x 2 inches, been around the block a few times, and on it’s way out the door? It’s the...
The New Mood Ring
Technology might teach us a few things, but it also forces us to lose some skills. Our sense of...
Beauty Goes Digital–Offline and On
What is it about beauty that has resonated so much during the pandemic? Even in a year with face...
CE Industry Leaders Share Their Insights on Business Today
Robin Raskin Founder, VEG (Virtual Events Group) Toni Sabatino CEO,...
How Cold and Impersonal Should Grocery Shopping Get?
If the pandemic taught us anything it was how to modify our shopping habits. We Venmoed, learned...
I’ll Miss Bill and Melinda
Dear Melinda, I’ve been married to a geek for over 40 years. So believe me, I get it. Of course...
AOL and Yahoo: More Media Lives than the Kardashians
Patrick Houston, a former executive and colleague at Yahoo! reminded me of an old joke. “Did you...
Digital Twins Grow Up
If you’d asked me a week ago about my idea of what Digital Twins were, I would have answered “the...
Can Facebook Break the Sound Barrier?
For tech geeks, life has always been divided into two camps. There’s the Swiss Army Knife camp...
Perfecting the Art of the Virtual (Meeting)
Shindig is one of a number of new virtual event products to foster networking and intermingling...
Can Tech Help Creatives Earn a Decent Living
Photo by Daria Nepriakhina Benefactors have always served as patrons of creative people, from the...
Lessons Learned or Post-Covid Amnesia?
Experience, it’s been said, is a tough teacher. She gives you the test first and then gives you...
Nature + Tech = Sustainable Fashion
“Fashion scientist” Amanda Parkes has been both fashion-forward and eco-minded ever since I’ve...
Audio: 2021’s Comeback Kid
Those of you that grew up huddled around transistor radios and then happily moved to a world of...
The Next Land Grab Is Digital (An NFT Tutorial)
Image: Zachary Crockett’s rendition of the fungible versus non-fungible worlds appeared in The...
Till we Meet Again (at Conferences)
We are all approaching the one-year anniversary of a world in lockdown. Perhaps you’re...