Hybrids are a sham concocted by an antiquated industry to deceive the market and regulators, and one backed up by governments that subsidize something that should never have qualified for any kind of support. Consumers buy them because they seem to address their concerns for the environment. In short, hybrids are the last, poisonous, gasp of an obsolete and profoundly harmful technology.

Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).

We are hopefully entering our last wave where we are still a bit on our back foot. The future of this pandemic will be less chaotic, more science based and easier to manage. We need to be cautious, but not paranoid. As I mentioned earlier, most people will get exposed to Omicron, it’s almost inevitable…and getting it does not mean you did something wrong..it means you’re a human in the petri-dish of 21st century life. The good news is that human ingenuity has developed effective vaccines and we are in the precipice of viral treatments. And not that we want more variants, but this might be the one that has the characteristics that provide an offramp to this two year shit-show of uncertainty.

Any engineer who has spent years on a complex application knows that you always have a layering challenge. If you pick too low a layer to build on, you end up having to recreate a lot of pre-existing functionality that is not fundamental to your product mission. But if you pick too high a layer, you end up constantly struggling to get it to behave or evolve the way you want; it’s like trying to paint a portrait with a 4 foot paintbrush. 99 out of 100 engineers would prefer to err on the side of picking too low a layer. Of course, idea…