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.
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
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.
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.
The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!
One day robots may babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?
The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.