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My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB HD, 5 1/4" floppy drive, CGA monitor, no mouse, no sound, no CD-ROM.
Also used a dB Spectrum before that - it used a cassette recorder for storage, had 64K memory, and used a TV as display.
A very interesting look at the way home video technology, particularly the VCD has evolved. A pretty lengthy read.
Now you know why they're calling it the "post-pc" era. It's the "personal" bit that's history.
All points pretty valid even today, and RIM has pretty much sealed its fate.
Very interesting thoughts:
"I make fun of Kinect, but it's important to see this as what it is: The incredibly unsophisticated predecessor of tomorrow's Skynet Terminator robots. On that note, I hope they don't remember what I said about them."
In case you ever wondered what kind of progress we have made as a civilization, this articles the best example you can find.
"A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not."
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A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
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As Carl Sagan wrote in Cosmos, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
The Kodak moment gives way to the iPhone moment.
Another interesting bit of technology to look forward to. Reminiscent of the object copier by Professor Calculus from Tintin and the Lake of Sharks.
Remember the argument of iPad vs the rest in the tablets wars? Guess who's the content distribution king on the web. Now, once the device market saturates, and the focus shifts entirely to content a la TV, who do you think will be reaping the rewards - Apple or Amazon?
The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness.
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The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics[1] and 3D computer animation,[2][3] which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's human likeness.
A very interesting story that shows why things shouldn't be taken at face value
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One of the settings that was set to zero was the timeout to connect to the remote SMTP server. Some experimentation established that on this particular machine with its typical load, a zero timeout would abort a connect call in slightly over three milliseconds.
Welcome to the future?
Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, and researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting. Explore his collection of input and interactive devices that he found interesting, useful, or important in the history of pen computing, pointing devices, and touch technologies.
Wonder what's the way out.
"The cause of situational overload is too much noise. The cause of ambient overload is too much signal."
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The cause of situational overload is too much noise. The cause of ambient overload is too much signal.
We've come a long long way in 30 years for sure. Orders of magnitude, in fact, and we still complain about poor hardware specs.
In the old days (before the Internet), no technology products were free, because distribution costs made it impossible to offer anything without some commitment from the end customer. As a result, new technology adoption generally started with the deepest
Probably jumping the gun & a bit too radical, but an interesting read on the changing times nonetheless. Moreover, a lot of content like video & even P2P does get served through the web.
Quite a different take on free by Malcolm Gladwell with a bunch of examples, summed up thus: "The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold
A prototype news search tool from Yahoo! Research Barcelona that currently uses the NYT database & shows trends for the search term (including predictions for the future)
via http://www.technologyreview.in/computing/26113/
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