Imagining Technology Futures – part 6
Kate Carruthers For me some defining characteristics of social computing (or web 2.0 as some call it) have been (a) democratization of the process of creation, enabling user generated content; and (b)…
November 2008
It’s Caturday again …
If you want a more serious view on lolcats then go here.
Imagining Technology Futures – part 5
Another key feature of the future will be an increased importance in data management to enable the semantic web. Databases are the key to the future of the web. Until…
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
Over lunch the other day with some girl geek buddies talk came around, as it does, to the revolutionary nature of community on the internet. It reminded me of this…
Imagining Technology Futures – part 4
New Interfaces are another area in which we can expect to see change. Since the development of the mouse and touch screens we have not seen any significant improvements in…
We need geeks!
It has been prevalent among many cultures to laugh at geeks. But this is a shortsighted approach to this special breed. Geeks have been with us for a long time.…
Imagining Technology Futures – part 3
Another area that is enabled by wireless technology and miniaturization is wearable computing. Already we are seeing wearable computing in daily life with integrated wearable technology beginning to be commercially…
Open source & Linux
I had the distinct pleasure of talking with Mark Jones, Paul Kangro (Novell), Greg Luck (Wotif), and Matthew Mengerink (PayPal) while recording the The Scoop podcast recently (the show will…
Just because it’s Caturday …
Sometimes we just need to slow down and allow the cuteness to be!
Buy nothing day 2008
According to AdBusters it is Buy Nothing Day on either 28th Nov (US) or 29th Nov (Int’l). Perhaps after the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) outbreak it is time to think…