latest posts
2007/2008
January 1st, 2008
Happy New Year to all of you that are regular readers of this blog and to those of you who might be coming to it the first time. May 2008 be a happy year for everyone. I can promise that it will be another year of upheaval and change, probably exceeding 2007 in that regard. I will submit to you my annual predictions, both general and specific, for the year within the next two weeks. Right now I would like to take a quick look at several late in the year developments of 2007 that provide indication as to where …
Google Leads the Way, Again
December 4th, 2007
Last week Google announced that the company, and its philanthropic subsidiary, Google.org, would explore research and develop renewable energy. The goal is to ultimately produce one gigawatt of renewable energy and do so more cheaply that coal-generated electricity, which of course creates vast amounts of CO2. I was thrilled to read the news reports of this announcement.
As someone who thinks about the future, converting global society to alternative and renewable types of energy and away from fossil fuels is perhaps the top challenge humanity …
Google, Cell Phones and Our Wireless Future
November 7th, 2007
Google has now made the long awaited announcement that it would be entering the wireless arena. It was not a product, or “Google Phone†roll-out, but rather the announcement of OHA, or the Open Handset Alliance. OHA(my choice to come up with an acronym as the full name sounds a bit too bureaucratic and almost Orwellian for me to type it a lot) is the next step in the globalization of connectivity and something I have anticipated and expected for a couple of years.
On this blog, and at conferences I point to the fact that it is the cell phone …
Sometimes it is Easy to See the Future – 5
September 13th, 2007
To quote from one of the four prior posts with this title:
“While in many areas it might be difficult to see into the future, in the area of technology the future can be readily seen. The speed of technological invention and innovation moves so quickly that we have barely assimilated a recent breakthrough when another shows up to knock us back on our heels again. While these innovations do provide a glimpse of our future, they can be disorienting in that they show us that the Present that we are struggling to accept and assimilate will soon be outdated.â€
Cloud computing …
