David Pogue
David Pogue
David Welch Pogueis an American technology writer and TV science presenter. He is a personal technology columnist for Yahoo Tech, a tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a columnist for Scientific American and a former technology columnist for The New York Times. He is also the host of NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and was the host of the NOVA specials Making Stuff in 2011 and Hunting the Elements in 2012. Pogue has written or co-written seven books in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth9 March 1963
CityShaker Heights, OH
CountryUnited States of America
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.
If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.
My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.
For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.
People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones.
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.
Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.
Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.