Recent(ish)
clips 5
Plus
a couple hundred articles in a variety of magazines and websites
prior to 2000 that are too old to bother indexing here, except
for the following random sampling of stuff still available on
the Web:
"Burned
by Technology"
Exposé about corporate
overspending on incompatible hardware and software.
Fortune
September 9, 1996
"How to Make Your Child PC Literate"
Article about why parents need to take responsibility
for their children's computer literacy (unless the children are
adult children, in which case Tom points out that they have to
take responsibility for their parents' computer literacy, much
to his chagrin).
Fortune
November 14, 1994
"Watch Out for the CD-ROM Hype"
Exposé about tech companies crowing over nonexistent profits from their multimedia businesses.
Fortune
September 19, 1994
"How
Compaq Keeps the Magic Going"
Story about Eckhard Pfeiffer's turnaround of Compaq, not that it lasted.
Fortune
February 21, 1994
"Posthumous
Paychecks for Chief Executives"
Exposé about so-called "Golden Coffin" clauses in CEO contracts; the publication of this story made national headlines and spurred a protest march down Sixth Avenue in Manhattan in which people wore black cloaks and carried scythes while carrying life-size coffins over their heads.
Fortune
October 7, 1991

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