Upon2020 (archive)
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Input Devices
So how are we going to interact with all of those screens? Let’s first list what won’t work: keyboards: we’re not about to have a keyboard underneath each picture frame in our houses. mice: same as for keyboards. There also won’t be a table surface in front of each screen. tiny little buttons on the…
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Smart Meter Security?
Seems PG&E is installing smart meters for electricity and gas in our neighborhood. They use some kind of mesh networking. Anybody know how they might be secured?
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The House Of 1000 Windows
Perhaps the rate of technological change is indeed accelerating. One can’t even make a few outlandish predictions any more (as I did on this blog last week) without being passed on the right by actual events. Take the past week’s CES: On the subject of 3D TVs, I’ll just note that the world’s software developers…
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High-Resolution Screens Everywhere
[As I’m writing this post, the news comes in that Skype HD videoconferencing will be built into TV sets starting this year. This is exactly what I’m talking about in this post as opening up all sorts of new possibilities.] Let’s compare some prices for flat-panel displays (from Dell, cheapest available alternative chosen): August 2004…
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Another Decade, Time for One More Blog
What’s the next decade going to be like in technology? I found myself pondering this a lot recently. It seems we are in for very revolutionary changes … like the becoming irrelevance of the PC. Or the move to NoSQL. Or all web apps being connected to each other, with RSS/Atom and OpenID being the…