My beloved’s BlackBerry didn’t know it was a bank holiday Monday and decided to wake us at the crack of dawn with an assortment of hideous alarm tones. I don’t get the BlackBerry phenomenon, never have. Each and every model is chunky, very plastic, cheap-looking and with keyboards best suited to pixie fingers....
The future of mankind is one driven by the need to innovate. The pressures on our species are unique, which will in time give rise to unique solutions to the problems of our past, present and of our future…
In this third extended installment, I’ll be exploring some of the directions the human race will take over the coming centuries, examining how new science & technology will impact man and society, and in turn be impacted by society itself.
In the previous installment, discussing the economics of future technology predictions, I made mention of the two prevailing schools of thought:
The theory that the human race will become augmented in some way by certain devices that are beneficial to us.
The theory that our growing understanding of genetics will lead us to various...
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Mobile Devices
I had to read this statement by Dave Winer a couple of times just to make sure I read it right.
“Something that’s remarkable to consider. As closed to developers as Apple is with the iPod and now the iPhone, it’s pretty amazing that Microsoft, a company with a long tradition of offering developer platforms, hasn’t managed to offer a product that’s even worth considering by developers as an alternative to the non-existent option of producing software for Apple’s mobile devices.”
Source: Scripting News: 1/16/2007
He can’t be serious can he? How can you compare the opportunities that exist for developers on Microsoft’s mobile platform, with those that (don’t) exist on Apple’s iPlatform? They’re like chalk and...
I’ve not been so excited or so sure about a new direction for mobile technology since podcasting in June 2004. I’m sure we’ll look back on this as a turning point for mobile news.
Source: Scripting News: 8/22/2006
Why should this be a turning point? Just because Dave has looked at it? The BBC has been offering mobile news for ages now, but that’s not likely to stop Dave, watch out for the “I invented mobile news” posts in the future.
Tags: Dave Winer, Mobile......
