I been thinking about something Joi told me over lunch last week: “Power company is making tons of money off data center”. Power is something we take for granted. We assumed it is there whenever we need it. We don’t even factor it in our network design. Yet, in a discussion of Internet business model, […]
Category: Futurist
Architecture of the Internet
Andrew Odlyzko, author of The many paradox of Broadband, published an equally thought-provoking article: Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation While engineers and technologist like myself have been arguing the need for “End-to-End” principle either on ideological or technical reasons, Andrew provides an economical perspective of why the “threats” […]
More on outsourcing
Wired ran another article on the outsourcing to India trend. I got a mixed feeling of between been proud to sad for the situation as the article confirmed the predictions i made last year on outsourcing. But there are many lessons to learn from the article, like the one comparing the introduction of computers in […]
Lessons from history
John Berresford, Attorney for Media Bureau at FCC, just published a draft on the webpage for Harvard Program for Information Resources Policy. It is called “How Government Can Bring New Communications to All Americans: Six1 Lessons from History Discovered by a Libertarian”. (via Dave Farber’s IP list)
Vint Cerf on the Internet
BBC News have an interview with Vint Cerf on his view on the development of Internet. The next decade, he believes, will see the net spread even further and start to become the basic communications infrastructure for almost anything. To begin with, he thinks, the net will stop being a part of the telephone network. […]
What’s next?
Peter Drucker is really an amazing man. I learn new things from his book everytime I read them. Last night, I read this book (for the 5th time), this paragraph got me thinking: The decline of manufacturing as a producer of wealth and jobs changes the world’s economic, social, and political landscape. The economic miracles […]
FCC Chairman on Internet Telephony
Mercury News ran a story on Michael Powell field trip to the Sillicon Valley (via Jeff Pulver). “Now to be a phone company, you don’t have to weave tightly the voice service into the infrastructure. You can ride it on top of the infrastructure. So if you’re a Vonage, you own no infrastructure. You own […]
The future of Voice
David Beckemeyer has a follow up on his entry on IP Telephony. We are definately in sync altho I have a two comments. First, I agree with David that ENUM is not a magic bullet to the universal addressibility problem with current IP Telephony deployment. If the basic infrastructure is a close network, ENUM, which […]
The future for television show
I just have a discussion with Grant Henninger on using RSS feed on #joiito. <jseng> Grant: what we need is TV station providing RSS feed (channel) of their tv shows. Viewers will subscribe to the RSS feeds and then download the tv shows they want to watch. <Grant> jseng: i had a post that said […]
The future of TV
A joke was posted on Slashdot today titled What Should I Do If the Internet Goes Down?. One paragraph caught my attention. Televisions, strange boxes that sit in your parents’ living rooms, were once used to provide entertainment, long before DVDs and Playstations were invented. Televisions have the capability of broadcasting streaming information similar to […]