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Technology Change – Speed and Time
–by Andrew McCaskey
I had an interesting email recently that described a really rough week of planned upgrades that went horribly wrong. He described five days of round the clock efforts as hundreds of Gigabytes of data disappeared, backups failed and things went down from there. He described the hours between 10:00PM and 1:00AM that just vanished – as time went severely non-linear.
Move forward to today and the final chapters in a book that I’ve been consuming in 20 minute segments – the length of one dog walk with the iPod. “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee, a fascinating book on processes within the brain leading in final chapters to predictions of machines with cognitive processing capability. He observes that there is a phenomenom in technology that short term change takes longer than you think, while long term change happens faster than you predict. Another example of some non-linearity of time.
In the short range, some technology is all the buzz, with swarms of early adopters, trials and failures. Everyone predicts some immediate disruptive change that, in the main just doesn’t seem to gain traction for two or three years. Five years later, it’s hard to believe what the fuss was about. Sound anything like podcasting ? Stay tuned.
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Interactive Touchscreen Demo: a video of a really cool touchscreen interface – about ten times better than the Bill Gates demo at CES. Hard to describe, about three minutes long.
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Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online, a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.
I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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