Cisco tech guru: ‘Smart everything’ looms

The Cisco kidder entertained with quips but bedazzled with serious stuff Thursday as he warned the 21st century was going to ratchet the pace of change toward warp speed. Howard Charney, who actually goes by the title senior vice president of Cisco Systems, Inc., wasn’t kidding when he kidded his listeners at a Northern Nevada Development Authority breakfast meeting in Carson City’s Carson Nugget casino downt