Comments on: Sometimes it is Easy to See the Future – Number 2 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/ A Future Look at Today Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/comment-page-1/#comment-490 Jonathan Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:22:39 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/#comment-490 David: There is a big risk plugging your USB memory stick into someone else's computer. You have no idea about the digital hygiene of the other computer. It may have keystroke loggers, viruses, trojans, etc. This can be very much like unprotected sex. I am sensitive to this because I sold "fully managed" PCs for guest use at luxury hotels. At logoff, Our software digitally cleaned up every digital scrap that was brought onto the computer by the user while s/he was logged on. This was not trivial. Also, we were downloading patches frequently for the standard software that we loaded on the system. I can remember checking the cache on a browser on someone else's offering and finding a PowerPoint presentation. Now that I have sold in this category, I watch all of this kind of news because I do not see enough attention paid to these kinds of problems. David:

There is a big risk plugging your USB memory stick into someone else’s computer. You have no idea about the digital hygiene of the other computer. It may have keystroke loggers, viruses, trojans, etc. This can be very much like unprotected sex.

I am sensitive to this because I sold “fully managed” PCs for guest use at luxury hotels. At logoff, Our software digitally cleaned up every digital scrap that was brought onto the computer by the user while s/he was logged on. This was not trivial. Also, we were downloading patches frequently for the standard software that we loaded on the system.

I can remember checking the cache on a browser on someone else’s offering and finding a PowerPoint presentation.

Now that I have sold in this category, I watch all of this kind of news because I do not see enough attention paid to these kinds of problems.

]]> By: Caleb http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Caleb Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:00:51 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/#comment-384 Grant + Wesley - An artist / inventor in New York recently demo'd a 360 degree HD video camera that films at about 9GB / sec (I think) downstream. Obviously that creates absolutely massive amounts of data. But more than frivolously burn through harddrives, it has the potential to create a new medium - a film in which the audience is confronted with sensory stimuli in every direction, seamlessly, allowing them to choose their own narrative and viewing experience. These new developments should not only be considered on the individual level. As the size of storage increases and affordable price points are birthed into the market, the communal value cannot be understated. For better or worse, it will soon be possible to offer that $100 laptop preconfigured with the entire (presumably western) ideological cannon in plain text. What kind of socio-cultural impact does it have to the global locales that are most likely to actively seek this kind of information? Will it enlighten mankind or further eradicate the historical richness of under-developed nations? And as drive sizes become infinitely more dense and infinitesimally smaller, they, much like white dwarf stars, will consolidate the surrounding information networks down for larger media advancements and smoother operation. I'm already a huge fan of organizing information networks by secondary identifiers like color or size to convey important statistical points without having to do any reading or extra mental processing. NewsMap is a great example of this. Likewise for the toys at Ambient Devices. I imagine that the physical consolidation of data will allow for an expansion in the way we interact with it. Streaming stock tickers, which is already an abstraction of a data set, will become something even more abstract, but also eminently more engaging. Perhaps, they will become just a stream. http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/index.html Grant + Wesley – An artist / inventor in New York recently demo’d a 360 degree HD video camera that films at about 9GB / sec (I think) downstream. Obviously that creates absolutely massive amounts of data. But more than frivolously burn through harddrives, it has the potential to create a new medium – a film in which the audience is confronted with sensory stimuli in every direction, seamlessly, allowing them to choose their own narrative and viewing experience.

These new developments should not only be considered on the individual level. As the size of storage increases and affordable price points are birthed into the market, the communal value cannot be understated. For better or worse, it will soon be possible to offer that $100 laptop preconfigured with the entire (presumably western) ideological cannon in plain text. What kind of socio-cultural impact does it have to the global locales that are most likely to actively seek this kind of information? Will it enlighten mankind or further eradicate the historical richness of under-developed nations?

And as drive sizes become infinitely more dense and infinitesimally smaller, they, much like white dwarf stars, will consolidate the surrounding information networks down for larger media advancements and smoother operation. I’m already a huge fan of organizing information networks by secondary identifiers like color or size to convey important statistical points without having to do any reading or extra mental processing. NewsMap is a great example of this. Likewise for the toys at Ambient Devices. I imagine that the physical consolidation of data will allow for an expansion in the way we interact with it. Streaming stock tickers, which is already an abstraction of a data set, will become something even more abstract, but also eminently more engaging. Perhaps, they will become just a stream.

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/index.html

]]> By: Grant http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Grant Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:17:29 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/#comment-383 That's true, David. I hadn't thought about the ability to store entire movies on a computer. This type of storage space, along with a world-wide high speed wireless data streaming service could also eliminate the need for DVD's and other current physical storage media (i.e. for playing movies, etc) as well. -Grant TheCornerOfficeBlog.com That’s true, David. I hadn’t thought about the ability to store entire movies on a computer.

This type of storage space, along with a world-wide high speed wireless data streaming service could also eliminate the need for DVD’s and other current physical storage media (i.e. for playing movies, etc) as well.

-Grant
TheCornerOfficeBlog.com

]]> By: david http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/comment-page-1/#comment-382 david Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:53:18 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/#comment-382 Wesley- Very good points and ultimately the right position to take. Technological innovations become opportunities, windows and tools, so how they are used and how they alter behavior is the key question. One key answer was discussed in my post about the One Laptop Per Child post:http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/31/100-laptop-one-laptop-per-child/ and the first post on "Sometimes it's not hare...":http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/07/05/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future/ Thanks for the smart comment. David Wesley-

Very good points and ultimately the right position to take. Technological innovations become opportunities, windows and tools, so how they are used and how they alter behavior is the key question. One key answer was discussed in my post about the One Laptop Per Child post:http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/08/31/100-laptop-one-laptop-per-child/ and the first post on “Sometimes it’s not hare…”:http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/07/05/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future/

Thanks for the smart comment.

David

]]> By: david http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/comment-page-1/#comment-381 david Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:47:01 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2006/09/12/sometimes-it-is-easy-to-see-the-future-number-2/#comment-381 Grant- I agree with you on your disintermediation comments. As for the one terrabyte question, the only thing I can see right now is that on one prtable device you could have all your photos, home movies, DVD collection of movies and movies downloaded. Two hour movies take up a lot of storage. David Grant-

I agree with you on your disintermediation comments. As for the one terrabyte question, the only thing I can see right now is that on one prtable device you could have all your photos, home movies, DVD collection of movies and movies downloaded. Two hour movies take up a lot of storage.

David

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