thoughts on technology, life and culture from the sponsors of tomorrow
Since you’rve found your way to Inside Scoop you’re probably already social media savvy. This blog post is not necessarily for you, but maybe a friend, family member, someone you wished embraced social media more. I recently found myself on two instances defending the value of social media to professionals outside Intel: One a sales... Read more >  |
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In the Intel store here at work, they sell a PC skin: We don’t watch sci-fi movies. We live them. As Intel employees (“Sponsors of Tomorrow“), we are privileged to see amazing things happen with Intel architecture every day, but we’re not alone in living the sci-fi life. Intel futurist Brian David Johnson knows science... Read more >  |
“Butts in seats” is car salesperson lingo for customer test drives. Translation: You as a customer can do all the research in the world and go kick tires in a dealer lot, but it’s when you get behind the wheel (when your butt is in the car seat) that the light bulb of understanding truly... Read more >  |
Can you turn out a brilliant sci-fi short story, script, or comic in one week? If you haven’t started, that’s how much time you have to meet the submission deadline for the Tomorrow Project Seattle. Brings to mind what the silver age creators at Marvel Comics called the “Dreaded Deadline Doom.” Submissions are due by... Read more >  |
Corporate visions for the future require the “impersonal logic” cited by Andy Grove in his book, “Only the Paranoid Survive.” It was this impersonal logic that allowed Intel to recognize an inflection point and shift its core business to microprocessors. Today, Intel futurists envision a compute continuum where computing exists in literally everything, from cars... Read more >  |
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I’m a ComicCon legacy, been there more times I can count (still have the con’s Chris Bachalo Sandman t-shirt from 1995). But I’ve never been to a sci-fi convention. So I’m excited to hit Norwescon, Seattle in a few hours. Besides being a premier Pacific Northwest con, it’s also where the Philip K. Dick Award... Read more >  |
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