Denise Caruso

That changes how stubborn problems get treated.

Which reminds me of Denise Caruso and her Hybrid Vigor Institute.

Hybrid vigor, as in biology.

Cross two strains, and you get something stronger.

Academics chase rigor and peer review.

Same problem, three languages of success.

Which is why Denise Caruso fascinates me.

She knew the tech DNA from reporting in Silicon Valley and then went deep on avian influenza risk and GM crops.

But while Microsoft slowly throttles up its internet engine, the prospect of new types of computers optimized for communication and digital media is already at hand.

Jean-Louis Gasset, the former chief technologist at Apple Computer, last week demonstrated just such a machine produced by his startup company, Bee Inc., That was Denise Caruso writing for the New York Times in October of 1995.

Welcome back to Designed in California.

My name is Mike Hurley, and I have the pleasure of being joined by my co-host, Jason Snell.

Well, in the early days, as we talked about in our first couple of series, this was standard, right? There were no standard PCs.

Everything was its own thing, and they were all kind of incompatible until the IBM PC came out.

In this era, it's one of the reasons I wanted you to read that Denise Caruso thing in the New York Times, is in this era of the internet rising and the Wintel Alliance...

It seemed like it was at its peak, but it also seemed like we might have finally gotten the idea of how it could become irrelevant, which was the internet.