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 […]
Tag: Futurist
Internet Apocalypso
Found an interesting article called Internet Apocalypso aka the ClueTrain Manifesto. I know I know, I am about four years late reading this (it is published online in 1999 and was the best seller in Business Week in 2000 and have been translated to a dozen of languages). But have things change over the last […]
IP convergence eat away at voice services cash cow
Via ITU Newsblog According to the a Yankee Group survey, IP convergence is forcing European telecoms operators to re-evaluate market strategies and move away from their traditional cash cow voice services and circuit-switched networks to packet-based infrastructures. Amongst the 25 incumbent and alternate operators surveyed across 16 European countries, two thirds of operators expect traditional […]
ITU actually got (part of) it!
Today, I catched up with my blogroll (which I lag very behind due to spending all my free time on the bayesian plugin), and was kind of surprise to see this on ITU Newsblog. Public IP telephony would create a wide open door for new competitors to walk in and take away all the value […]
Predicting the future, Part 2: “local industry”
I wrote about Outsourcing in Part 1 of Predicting the future a month ago and I thought it is about time I write a sequel. So here is Part 2: “local industry”. Like Part 1, lets look at industry revolution and how railroad changed the business landscape. Railways bring people closer together and allow goods […]
Andy Grove on Outsourcing
Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, warns the danger of outsource: The U.S. software industry is about to lose jobs and market share to foreign competitors unless the government acts quickly to fight protectionist trade policies and double U.S. productivity, he said. Actually, I wrote about the trend of outsourcing in Predicting the future a month […]
Interview with Bill Joy
There is an interview with Bill Joy in Fortune magazine called Joy After Sun. While it does not really say much what he wants to do next, the interview reveals his views on the challenges facing Sun, Microsoft and the Internet.
The future of cups and pots
“Smart network or dumb network? Whats your view?” I asked Don Tapscott during lunch yesterday. “Everything, both device & network, is getting smarter. Some devices will remain dumb however.” replied Don and immediately, I feel embrassed asking such a silly question. “Isn’t it so obvious!” I told myself. Or is it?
Learning from the next generation
John Patrick has a very interesting blog today called “Youth at the Gate” (CIO Insight). When I am growing up as a kid (and I am not that old btw), we play five stones and “goli” (marbles). We play police & thief catching in the field or varity of sports. Kids today grow up with […]
Predicting the future: Part 1, Outsourcing
It should not come as a surprise that we are in the juncture between industry revolution and information revolution. But what this really mean? For centuries, production of goods are done by artisan usually aided by immediate family members. Yet, within 50 years of industry revolution, this was replaced by factories with unskilled workers. Factories […]