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
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.
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.
He's got to do what he's got to do, ... It's part of his job.
I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.
There's very definitely a learning curve, ... I made it work because I absolutely had no choice.