McAdams On

I am home again after five days at the at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas with 100,000 of my closest friends.

Let's consider a few recent headlines about fiber optics

Technology is supposed to make life easier, not take my job. Sarcasm is the sole thing standing between me and a robot doing it.

Mobile DTV is sort of like a yeti that's coming to a forest clearing near you any minute. We've been hearing about it for five years now.

The venture is an object lesson in how spectrum allocation is meaningless without consistent receiver standards, and how one industry strategically avoided them by coopting adjacent spectrum.