What I discovered was that - with the caveat of a necessary network connection - life is just fine without a disk. Between the Firefox Web browser, Google’s
Gmail and and the search engine company’s Docs Web-based word processor, it was possible to carry on quite nicely without local data during my trip.
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Google and I.B.M. Join in ‘Cloud Computing’ Research - New York Times
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Why Cant We Compute in the Cloud? Part 2 - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
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he only things I was missing were the passwords to online databases
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A crippled user device like the one you’re talking about might be convenient today, but in five years, for not much more money, you could be holding a super-computer in your hand. You want to give that up because your hard drive crashed?
— Posted by MoJo
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Why Cant We Compute in the Cloud? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
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Tags: cloud-computing, google, innovation, john-markoff, laptop, web2.0 on 2007-12-28 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About
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Now, coupled with the rise of Google-style Web-based computing and the near-ubiquity of wireless broadband the time seems ripe for a new kind of computing.
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Dozens of start-ups are creating an increasingly rich set of Web-based applications and more than a dozen efforts are under way to move the computer “operating system” itself onto the Web and away from the desktop.
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For all the activity, however, one thing seems to be inexplicably missing.
There have been almost no credible efforts to design stripped down mobile computer hardware to match the wealth of Web software.
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That said, nobody seems to be ready to really gamble on computing on the Web.
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There is no privacy. Period.
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I, for one, like the idea that my most important applications reside at a distance from the communal well…
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I think there is a greater transition occurring to online computing than you’ve recognized. On-line computing for everything from basic word processing to file downloading and web publishing has been quietly taking off for years. Google’s free services alone let users save and edit text and spreadsheet documents, design and publish websites, maintain online photo albums, maintain calendars–all of which were, until somewhat recently, done offline. There are even utilities that turn GMail into a virtual hard drive. Instant messaging no longer requires the downloading and installation of software thanks to AIM Express and Google Talk. Securities trading can be done entirely without locally installed software through all major online brokers (this has been the case for some time). The only things the internet lacks which come to mind are the more computation intensive applications like media editing.
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If there is a third-party intermediary, how can one be certain that the user’s information stays not only confidential and protected from prying eyes, but also that it remains privileged?
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Additionally, when software gets centralized, it gets dumbed-down.
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PS - I’m against this paradigm - if you depend on a central site then you have a single point of failure. If you have stuff distributed, you are safer.
— Posted by Ted KOppel
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A central computing station can be located very near the source of power allowing greatly reduced electical transmission losses and/or free power for operation, as well as greatly extending the effective lifespan of equipment due to the reduced power costs.
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Computing in the cloud means a TOTAL lack of privacy and a major blow to security. Not only will your data be stored in the cloud but even the process of synthesis of your raw data will be done elsewhere.
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I think cloud computing advocates routine forget about the limitations imposed by the network - specifically with regard to latency. Applications that work very well in low latency environments will crash and burn in mid to high latency networks. This limits the appropiate applications to ones where the majority of the interactivity happens locally (like a webmail program) or where there is limited interactivity in the first place (streaming video). It doesn’t work for things where response times matter - games, command shells, and other interactive applications. The necessary delay imposed by the speed of light might seem small - whats a tenth of second between friends after all - but they can add up in ways that might not be obvious until the application is almost useless.
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You can overcome these problems by pushing more and more of the program down onto the client *but* the more you have the client perform the further you move away from the thin client ideal. Eventually you end up with a situation where a ‘cloud computing’ device has as much processing power as a traditional system in order to handle all of the demands placed on it by the users.
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When you couple this with increased network demands, the introduction of more failure points (the network goes down and your computer is now useless), the need to trust corporations with your private and confidential data (what happens when the next dot bomb hits and all of your data is on a server that gets reposessed?), and the lack of choice it entails I believe cloud computing will never replace tradtional computing. It may end up working within existing paradigms and compute infrastructure but it will never replace it.
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all technical reasons aside they simply want the ownership.
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Putting all data and increased functionality on the web is limited by: (1) the desire and need to work when the network is either unavailable or is functioning poorly; (2) the desire and need to maintain possession and control of one’s data and applications; (3) the loss of power and bargaining leverage to a third party that controls your data and your applications; (4) concerns about the security of your information on someone else’s servers; (5) the costs of renting or subscribing to services, which in many case will greatly exceed the costs of shrink wrapped software and the costs of owning and operating a computer; (6) Scaling servers and networks to run applications in addition to the current tasks of sharing files is going to be expensive, and that costs will be reflected in subscriptions for web services; and (7) for the foreseeable future, local applications on a PC are and will be much more capable and flexible than cloud computing for many applications
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Cloud Computing shall compliment, not replace, local computing on the PC. The winner, whether Apple or Microsoft or someone else, will be he who best understands the constantly evolving principles of the relationship among cloud computing and local computing
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Nothing discussed here is the real “cloud” - this just centralized computing circa 1970. The real cloud will occur when each of our personal computers is a low power networked machine/data storage, and the processing happens across massively multiple clouds of these low powered machines … the SETI distributed processing model as basic computing paradigm.
— Posted by Robert
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For the discussion about thin client computing I strongly believe that centralized services and the personal computer will merge together in the future. That means that you can use centralized applications with local data and vice versa, and you do not need to know where the Application or data resides, you can simply use it from different systems and places.
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Reality, only better | Economist.com
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gladwell dot com - the bakeoff
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Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies - at LiveScience
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Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine
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Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine
March 09, 2007
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Artificial intelligence guru Danny Hillis has launched an early version of the first major Web 3.0 application. It's called Freebase, and its grandiose epistemological mission is right up there with those of Google and Wikipedia."We’re trying," Hillis tells John Markoff of the New York Times, "to create the world’s database, with all of the world’s information.” Alpha user Tim O'Reilly says that Freebase "appears to be a bastard child of wikipedia and the Open Directory Project" but that it's really "like a system for building the synapses for the global brain.”
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The essence of the Semantic Web is the development of a language through which computers can share meaning and hence operate at a higher, more human level of intelligence. The meta tags are crucial to that machine language.
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The product of Hillis's latest company, Metaweb Technologies, Freebase is a user-generated brain. Like Wikipedia, it allows people to freely add information to it, in the form of text or images or, one assumes, anything else that can be rendered digitally. But it also allows users to add "metadata" about the information - tags that describe what a word or picture is and how it relates to other information.
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Freebase, says O'Reilly, "turns its users loose on not just adding more data items but making connections between them by filling out meta tags that categorize or otherwise connect the data items, using a typology that can be extended by users, wiki-style."
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The addition of rich meta tags in a standardized form is what makes Freebase a next-generation Web application - a manifestation of what Tim Berners-Lee long ago dubbed the Semantic Web and what has recently been rebranded Web 3.0 for popular consumption.
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Although the wikipediaesque user-generated quality of Freebase will get much attention, Freebase is really more about the creation of a community of machines than a community of people.
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Freebase hopes to harness the (free) labor of a big pool of vounteers to add those tags, which is a labor-intensive chore (and a big hurdle on the path to Web 3.0).
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But Hillis has bigger fish to fry than self-programming gadgets. In the past, he's expressed a desire to create machines that transcend what he sees as the limitations of human beings. "I guess I'm not overly perturbed by the prospect that there might be something better than us that might replace us," he once said. "We've got a lot of bugs, sorts of bugs left over history back from when we were animals." Freebase is an attempt at creating an artificial intelligence that can be bootstrapped by the contributions of humans. On one level, it works for us. On a deeper level, we work for it. As Hillis has also said, Web 3.0 is a "spooky thing."
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Of course, relying on a rag-tag band of volunteers, all afflicted with those nasty evolutionary bugs, brings its own problems, particularly in an effort that, unlike Wikipedia, requires a great deal of consistency and precision in terminology. Freebase's ability to attract and manage a human horde will be critical to its success. Will we be up for the job?
Posted by nick at March 9, 2007
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News in Science - Recharge your mobile wherever you are - 05/04/2004
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Bags with their own solar panels will allow people to recharge mobile phones on the run, a conference on sustainable technology has heard.
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The bags and cases have a built-in flexible, plastic photovoltaic cell on the outside to convert solar to electrical energy, which then runs to a plug inside the bag.
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TED: Jeff Han, A Year Later at Wired
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We knew there were a lot of applications for this but it's really nice to have that solidified by everybody e-mailing us. I just got an e-mail from somebody who works with disabled children and she said, "This is so perfect. My son's autistic and I'm a professor at a school of education. And interfaces like this is what we can use to get into these kids' minds."
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The funniest thing is that now I know what reverse spam is. You know you get spam from people saying can you invest in this or that? People are now e-mailing me saying, oh my God, can I invest in your company. It's a reverse solicitation of money.
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TED: Jeff Han, A Year Later page2, at Wired News
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Our business isn't just about selling screens. Multi-touch isn't just about dumping hardware on a customer's doorstep. It's an entire new way of developing user interfaces and we're the experts in that as well. It's a very different style of programming. So when a customer tells us we need this or that . . .
WN: You develop a system specific to their needs.
Han: Exactly.
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Can't Touch This - Jeff Han - Touch Screen at fastcompany magazine
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He conjured up a lava lamp and sculpted floating blobs that changed color and shape based on how hard he pressed. ("Google should have something like this in their lobby," he joked.)
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he rejects the idea that "we are going to introduce a whole new generation of people to computing with the standard keyboard, mouse, and Windows pointer interface."
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"There is no reason in this day and age that we should be conforming to a physical device," he said. "These interfaces should start conforming to us."
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In this Googly age, it only takes a random genius or two to conceive of a technology so powerful that it can plow under the landscape and remake it in its own image. People are already betting that Jeff Han is one of them.
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He was 12 when he built his first laser.
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Han skipped out on his senior year without graduating to join a startup that bought a videoconferencing technology he developed while a student. A decade later, he's poised to change the face of computing.
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Han's touch display, by contrast, redefines the way commands are given to a computer: It uses both movement and pressure--from multiple inputs, whether 2 fingers or 20--to convey information to the silicon brain under the display.
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"Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world," Han says. "Instead of being one step removed, like you are with a mouse and keyboard, you have direct manipulation. It's a completely natural reaction--to see an object and want to touch it."
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Meanwhile, wherever touch-screen technology leads, Han will face stiff competition. Microsoft has been working on its own version, TouchLight, which offers echoes of the Spielberg sci-fi flick Minority Report. GE (NYSE:GE) Healthcare, which manufactures MRI machines, is using TouchLight, licensed from Eon Reality, for 3-D imaging: Surgeons can swipe their hands across the screen and interact with an MRI of a brain, peel away sections, and look inside for tumors (retail price: $50,675).
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What's more, with the cost of cameras and screens plummeting, it is inevitable that interactive displays will be built into walls and in stores, in schools, on subways, maybe in taxicabs. In fact, a screen could be as thin as a slice of wallpaper, yet durable enough to handle the most rambunctious user.
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Not everyone is sold on Han's idea. Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland and a founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, calls Han a "great showman" who has "opened the door to exciting possibilities." But he doesn't think Han's technology would be suitable for a large-scale consumer product, nor as useful as a mouse on a large display. If you are standing in front of the screen, Shneiderman wonders, how would people behind you be able to see what you're doing?
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Han is explaining why he formed Perceptive Pixel. "I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating," he says. "I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy."
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Minority Report influenced Touchscreen presentation at TED by Jeff Han via YouTube
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- 2:33 "Google should have something like this in their lobby" - Jeff Hanpost by eyalnow on 2007-03-13 12:04:04
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Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.
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Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.
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Free, as in Beer, by Lawrence Lessig - Wired 14.09: Posts
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"Think free," the movement's founder, Richard Stallman puts it, "as in free speech, not free beer." You can charge whatever you want for free software. But what you can't do is lock up the knowledge that makes it run. Others must be allowed to learn from and tinker with it. No one is permitted a monopoly on the teaching that stands behind it.
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