http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2006/04/14/ubiquitous-computing/ Blogging the impact of computer-related technology trends, and whatever else catches my interest. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2006/04/14/ubiquitous-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-19497 The Yourdon Report » Blog Archive » Sugar Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:39:09 +0000 http://yourdon.com/personal/blog/?p=17#comment-19497 [...] screen for a year or more, including the blog post that I wrote on April 14, 2006 entitled “Ubiquitous Computing.” And progress continues, with large-scale commitments to OLPC by roughly a dozen national [...] [...] screen for a year or more, including the blog post that I wrote on April 14, 2006 entitled “Ubiquitous Computing.” And progress continues, with large-scale commitments to OLPC by roughly a dozen national [...]

]]> http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2006/04/14/ubiquitous-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 The Yourdon Report » Blog Archive » September 11, 2011 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:49:27 +0000 http://yourdon.com/personal/blog/?p=17#comment-1632 [...] Is this really what the future is going to be like? Remember: Moore’s Law says that our computer technology in 2011 will be approximately ten times faster, cheaper, and better than what we have now. For all we know, the soldiers of 2011 will have fully-equipped computers built into their helmets, with high-resolution displays built into their eyeglasses or goggles, and a voice-recognition user-interface that eliminates the need for keyboard and mouse. But the insurgents, terrorists, and miscellaneous citizens of Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and other third-world countries will also have dramatically better technology; if Nicholas Negroponte succeeds with his $100-laptop project (see my April 14th blog posting on “Ubiquitous Computing” for more details about this), then it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that citizens all around the world will have access to $10 computers in 2011. Will such a development make things better or worse? [...] [...] Is this really what the future is going to be like? Remember: Moore’s Law says that our computer technology in 2011 will be approximately ten times faster, cheaper, and better than what we have now. For all we know, the soldiers of 2011 will have fully-equipped computers built into their helmets, with high-resolution displays built into their eyeglasses or goggles, and a voice-recognition user-interface that eliminates the need for keyboard and mouse. But the insurgents, terrorists, and miscellaneous citizens of Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and other third-world countries will also have dramatically better technology; if Nicholas Negroponte succeeds with his $100-laptop project (see my April 14th blog posting on “Ubiquitous Computing” for more details about this), then it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that citizens all around the world will have access to $10 computers in 2011. Will such a development make things better or worse? [...]

]]> http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2006/04/14/ubiquitous-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-360 The Yourdon Report » Blog Archive » A modest proposal: Jimmy Wales for Nobel Peace Prize Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:39:25 +0000 http://yourdon.com/personal/blog/?p=17#comment-360 [...] Wales made two announcements for “today,” and a number of announcements of developments planned for the coming year. Today’s announcements included the interesting news that the One Laptop Per Child project, spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte (and discussed in my April 14th blog entry on “ubiquitous computing“), will now include Wikipedia as the first element in its content repository. Parenthetically, Wales added that Negroponte had said that Wikipedia “could be the killer app” for this next wave of end-users who will be able to access the Internet from developing nations. [...] [...] Wales made two announcements for “today,” and a number of announcements of developments planned for the coming year. Today’s announcements included the interesting news that the One Laptop Per Child project, spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte (and discussed in my April 14th blog entry on “ubiquitous computing“), will now include Wikipedia as the first element in its content repository. Parenthetically, Wales added that Negroponte had said that Wikipedia “could be the killer app” for this next wave of end-users who will be able to access the Internet from developing nations. [...]

]]> http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2006/04/14/ubiquitous-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-3 The Yourdon Report » Blog Archive » Harvesting those idle CPU cycles Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:05:06 +0000 http://yourdon.com/personal/blog/?p=17#comment-3 [...] In an earlier posting, I cited a source claiming that there were roughly 772 million PC’s worldwide as of 2004; for all I know, the number may be closer to a billion today. But what I do know is that most of those PC’s are idle roughly 99 percent of the time. They sit in offices where they are powered up only during the 9-5 workday hours, or they sit at home where they are powered up only when their owners are home in the evening. Even when they are running, they spend the overwhelming majority of their time waiting for their owners to stop dawdling and type some kind of meaningful instructions on the keyboard. [...] [...] In an earlier posting, I cited a source claiming that there were roughly 772 million PC’s worldwide as of 2004; for all I know, the number may be closer to a billion today. But what I do know is that most of those PC’s are idle roughly 99 percent of the time. They sit in offices where they are powered up only during the 9-5 workday hours, or they sit at home where they are powered up only when their owners are home in the evening. Even when they are running, they spend the overwhelming majority of their time waiting for their owners to stop dawdling and type some kind of meaningful instructions on the keyboard. [...]

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