Business Week's paper about the fact that in a few years, Telecoms will be a sectorless industry with phone, cable, and even power companies all selling the same communications services. Just four years ago, the world of communications was reassuringly compartmentalized. Customers bought cell-phon...
(Prospective) Techno Animism
Mike Kuniavsky in his paper in adaptive path explains that he is convinced that, as networks of smart objects permeate our environment, people’s attitudes toward technology will become more animist. In other words, we’ll start to anthropomorphize our stuff.(...) So how will people react to a ubiqui...
[Prospective] technorati is my social software
After few test on friendster or tribe, I have to admit that I don't like those social software. Why is that:1/ I have to log in other systems 2/ I have to subscribe 3/ My purpose is not to make friends but to find people who have the same interests. Thus, the first social soft I use is my blogroll ...
(Prospective) R&D: EU complains, US complains, dead-end ?
In Business Week, a paper about the fact that in the technology industry" America is now under assault from countries worldwide. How did this happen, and will the U.S. be able to fight back?". Those days Europe complains about brain drain, if the US complains too, where is R&D going? ...
[Prospective] Howard Rheingold on reputation system
Rheingold on social networks, reputation systems and all this stuff at SXSW: The question I ask is, What could we do walking around that we can't do now, given a simple reputation system? There's any number of things. If you want to connect with someone who's looking at the same problem, you can do...
(Prospective) nowpunk is the new trend
As bruce sterling mentioned in his SXSW talk (notes read in cory doctorow's craphound), NOWpunk is the new trend after cyberpunk and steampunk. sf novel, but not set in the future. Gibson's doing this too. It's a trend among aging cyberpunks. It's not cyberpunk, it's not steampunk, it's NOWpunk. ...
(Tech) a vocabulary for describing relationships between people
RELATIONSHIP is a vocabulary for describing relationships between people: friendOf, acquaintanceOf, parentOf, siblingOf, childOf, grandchildOf, spouseOf, enemyOf, antagonistOf, ambivalentOf, lostContactWith, knowsOf, wouldLikeToKnow, knowsInPassing, knowsByReputation, closeFriendOf, hasMet, worksW...
[Prospective] technology perversion:location based services and drug dealer
Dealing with prospective and technology, I like those people who has to figure out perversion or bad uses of technology. That is part of the job. This is another way to creatively think about technology ! For instance, I found the following here: 3G Pre-paid Services and Money LaunderingA drug deal...
[Prospective] new rose hotel ! nice scifi without seeing lots of etch/actions
Plot summary taken from imdb: Maas and Hosaka are two large Corporations in the future world. They are fighting to get control over the best minds of the world. The best is Hiroshi and at the moment he is working for the Maas Corporation. Fox has accepted an offer to persuade Hiroshi to go over to...
[Space and Place] bits and pieces about parking interface
If your are into parking interface, go there . Due to the fact that Ive visited The Home Depot approximately 2,483 times this winter Ive noticed something. The parking interface for the store is unacceptable. Im not talking about a web site here. I like this kind of statement even though I don...