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It's the robotics revolution that is already here! It is reshaping our world in some important ways and most of us aren't even noticing. I attended a talk yesterday by Dr Peter Singer, of the Brookings Institution, about his new book, Wired for War: The Robotics
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~ There have been some really interesting responses from a variety of people regarding my involvement with CeBIT this year. I'm finding it quite fascinating, and have even been called a "cool kid" which, for someone who's always been the quintessential library dwelling nerd, is
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~ There have been some really interesting responses from a variety of people regarding my involvement with CeBIT this year. I'm finding it quite fascinating, and have even been called a "cool kid" which, for someone who's always been the quintessential library dwelling nerd, is
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Believe it or not, I've attended CeBIT most years for ages. This is because, if you're working in enterprise IT, it's one of those conferences you and your boss tend to head along to together. Over the years I thought it got a little
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Believe it or not, I've attended CeBIT most years for ages. This is because, if you're working in enterprise IT, it's one of those conferences you and your boss tend to head along to together. Over the years I thought it got a little
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I'll be speaking at this session together with Karen Ganschow from Telstra. Should be an interesting lunch & good excuse to get out of the office for a while. Topic: How to make the Net work When: 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 Where: Harbours
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~ A few times now I've referred to Gilmore's Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the internet, and he is a self described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on
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In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organisations and were vastly expensive to setup and run. But the invention of TCP/IP and the modern internet changed all that. Now networks are between ordinary people using
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I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organisation that desperately needs to update its core systems, and to integrate
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I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organisation that desperately needs to update its core systems, and to integrate
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Neerav Bhatt did an interesting post about Encyclopedia Britannica, saying: Organisations in the information industry such as Book Publishers and Libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous fall from grace. Formerly a powerful company that could demand and receive large payments for access to it’s
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These are the words I threw out to David Niall Wilson when he asked for three words upon which he could base a poem. Many others responded too and the results of his three word poems are here. There is not enough poetry in the modern world so it is