May 27th, 2010
Yesterday I blogged about one obvious consequence of the cost reductions that Moore’s Law brings to us with computer technology: the likelihood of ubiquitous computing in the next few years. Today, I’ll blog about three other consequences:
Disposable computers
Multiple computer gadgets for everyone, not just one
Shift in power, as scarce technology becomes a commodity
Cheap Computers Means [...]
May 26th, 2010
In yesterday’s blog posting, I wrote about the likely impact of significantly faster computers that we can look forward to in the future. Today, I’ll explore another dimension of improvement suggested by Moore’s Law: cheaper computers. In rough, general terms, the computing power that costs me $1,000 today should cost $100 in five years, and [...]
May 25th, 2010
As I discussed in yesterday’s blog posting, Moore’s Law tells us that we should expect to see computer technology becoming ten times more powerful in the next five years, and 100 times more powerful a decade from now — in such key dimensions as speed, cost, size, and storage capacity.
Let’s start with the dimension of [...]
May 24th, 2010
As I suggested in my previous blog on this series of commentaries on future trends in the IT industry, we could probably spend several years improving things even if computer hardware didn’t change at all. But the fact of the matter is that hardware has changed, and will probably continue to do so for the [...]
May 17th, 2010
Here’s an interesting question to consider: would the IT industry improve during the next, say, five years if there were no improvements in hardware technology? Think about it: no new mainframes from IBM, no new desktop computers from Dell, no shiny new Powerbooks from Apple. No breathless announcements of a new hard disk that stores [...]
May 16th, 2010
Back in the Dark Ages — which, for me, was in the early 1970s — staying in touch with family, friends, and business colleagues while traveling abroad was a relatively straightforward affair: it simply didn’t happen. It was possible to call people on the phone, but there were no discount phone services, so it was [...]
May 10th, 2010
When I tweeted last Friday (April 30th) that my iPad would be arriving imminently via Fedex, a number of people responded, “Well, I hope you’ll blog about it!”It didn’t make sense to do so before the device had even arrived; and even after a week, I think it may be too soon. For example, someone [...]
June 10th, 2008
While I was presenting my Web 2.0 seminar in Rome this week, I had a chance to review and edit the V53 Web 2.0 materials that I recently uploaded — as well as adding some new material based on the June 9, 2008 Apple presentation about its new iPhone3g. The result is a new V54 [...]
June 8th, 2008
During the past week, I’ve had a chance to review and edit the V52 Web 2.0 materials that I recently published. The result is a new V53 version, which you can download as a PDF file by clicking here or on the picture below, or which you can view/download by visiting my Slideshare page. The [...]
April 12th, 2008
A couple months ago, I posted a long blog about the many reasons I had decided to forego the temptation to order Apple’s new MacBook Air. Too slow, too limited, missing ports and PC card slots, blah blah blah …
… and yet … and yet … I couldn’t help being tempted every time I saw [...]
