You have to define what "ruin" really is. Ruin could mean no longer being a viable brand, in which case you may be right. However ruin can also mean a creative decline in terms of creating new series, and if they're shifting to an ad supported model and try to appeal to the widest audience that may really be the case.
The problem is that when you have a hammer (a software startup), everything looks like a nail:
1. There may be a shortage of Doctors to provide a 2nd opinion. The cost of a medical education is quite high, and the pay has been going down these past few years. This can't be solved by a software startup.
2. Hospitals have less funding than ever, and are trying to do more with less. So there may already be software out there, but they can't afford it (or the staff to to maintain it, never mind the staff to distribute it). This can't be solved by a software startup.
3. This is really a political problem, and again that can't be solved by a software startup.
4. A medical opinion may not be a binary option, and it could be a moving target where data changes by the day, and it could be a suggestion to collect more data, or even to talk to someone else. Opinions by definition are arbitrary, as where something like IBM Watson may just give you options based on probability (but that probability is only as good as the data you collect, which may not be all inclusive, and may be a moving target). So a startup might even make things worse as people base their options on incomplete data or dated options.
The depressing reality is that there is a great deal of economic inequality in our society, and that's reflected in the quality of healthcare that many people receive. It should also be noted that poverty can prevent access to preventative healthcare strategies which include everything from diet to access to basic medication.
I hate to tell you this but you're looking in the mirror at your future self (and your peers) as coding isn't usually in most cases a healthy lifestyle choice.
Something to keep in mind is that Asimov was very much a product of the age of pulp magazines, so early on in his career he was paid by the word for his work.
A side geek note: If you were active in NYC fandom from say the 50s on chances were very good that you would actually get to see Isaac in person at many local science fiction conventions. For some reason he disliked air travel, and would show up at almost any local convention that he was invited to.
If you want to read a really good book on being a geek from the depression era to about the 50s I would highly recommend reading The Way the Future Was by rederik Pohl.
"Venture capitalist Michael Cardamone, the tournament’s co-organizer, approves of young companies buying tables with venture funds. “You absolutely should,” he says. “It’s part of building culture.”"
This: "Better design does not mean more design. Often, the most obvious designs are invisible." This also reminds me of the Steve Jobs approach of being proud of all the times that they said "no".
That depends on the nature of the startup: There is a ton of hyphen-tech here, so for example a fin-tech startup in my building that focuses on insurance just closed a Round B. Boston has a finance industry, but not on the level of NYC. And it's the same with media and other fields as well. Also something to keep in mind is that NYC has always been a magnet for Boston school grads and tech is no exception.
While it wasn't hardware I wish they had mentioned GEOS: If you had enough money for a disk drive this would give you a Mac OS feel to your C64:
http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.html
There already was a crash of ad banner rates in 2008, in fact that killed many small publishers. You'd have a real bubble if there was a ton of moneys still being pumped into AdTech, but that hasn't been the case for a year now. And you're now seeing mergers and acquisitions take place. A good example of this on a bigger level would be Verizon buying up AOL for their ad business.
Although something to realize is that there are winners in that business. Most people don't think of Facebook as an ad company, but they really do get mobile advertising and from the looks of things they'll keep growing. And that's not just Facebook but other properties like Instagram which will snag more and more ad dollars.
Something to keep in mind is that Japan is very impacted by the economy of China: Not just direct exports and tourism, but as the rest of Asia suffers from the slow down in China that also impacts Japanese exports as well. And on the tech side many Japanese brands from Sharp to Sony haven't been doing too well.
It's not a bubble, the advertising industry has always followed this cycle:
The post war television boom in America begat many new Madison Avenue ad agencies in the 50s who reached a high point in the 60s and the 70s, but then by the 80s and 90s were consolidated via mergers and acquisitions.
Even the great Ogilvy & Mather was swallowed by up WPP in 1989. In fact one of the David Ogilvy's greatest regrets was taking the company public which allowed the take over years later.
If you really want to learn about color you should start with a serious study of color theory. If you don't have the bandwidth to take a full course you should read the book "Interaction of Color" by Josef Albers.
If you want to be inspired by an amazing product roll out take a look at their video for the SX 70 (this is one of the amazing products that Steve Jobs admired Edwin H. Land for):
Looking back I have to conclude that Adobe didn't know what they were doing, so you can't really blame Apple. The proof? If you look at the success of Unity which does cross platform game dev very well you have to conclude that Adobe messed up with the future of Flash when mobile took off.
Every form of energy generation has positive and negative points, to claim that one is the best is oversimplification. In fact when I met people who worked for that industry their argument to me was that no single source of energy generation could meet full demand. To me the real prize in the energy game is efficiency, and there's quite a bit of wasted energy if you look around.