Steve Wozniak ventures out
What concerts have you seen recently?
I saw Arlo Guthrie recently. He used Macs in a concert down in Santa Barbara. I saw him with his son. He laughed heartily at my jokes. It's the 40th anniversary of "Alice's Restaurant." It was the first time he played "Alice's Restaurant" in years.
Tell me about your current company.
The company I started is to make a very low-cost GPS radio system for monitoring pets and children. The trick is getting the cost down. You need a small battery that will last for a year, and total process intelligence in a small tag. We failed at the consumer market, so we're aiming at the commercial markets. You could buy it for a dog, but you'd have to spend $400 on it. That won't work in the consumer market.
Would you change anything about the Internet if you could?
If I were designing it from the ground up, I'd want to have better security of data, so that it could be traced back to the real senders. Like encryption. And I wish our government had a policy that everybody could get high-speed Internet.
Do you worry that control of the Internet is being consolidated into a few portals, like Yahoo! and Google, that will dominate the market for information?
Human beings don't want a ton of portals. We want a few trusted ones.
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