Just want to add another voice - regular computer geek guy in Orlando who listens to local AM and FM but never heard of this. Saw the headline and thought WTF. Maybe I should look into this "Local 6" thing...
Hell, Lake Eola is a great place downtown - I would have have enjoyed this...
My kids are doing "wi-fi" every afternoon with each other on their Nintendo DS's right now. Will be interesting to see how a 'Revolution' and the DS interact...
I mean no disrespect to the significance of July 1968 - as Arthur C. Clarke wrote, in 500 years the only thing people may remember about the Unites States will be that event.
Space flight changed our view of the universe - no small thing but I think most people in 1969 (yep, me too as a boy) figured that event was the start of more than just a change in view, but a real opening of a frontier. At a nuts and bolts level, at 35 years in the future, the internet has changed more lives in the world. Just ask anyone from a third-world country who now has access to the world's information is a way almost unthinkable back then. The simple fact that me and you and a few hundred thousand of our closest friends from around the world are discussing this tonight is something that just amazes me when I think back on what people expected from their futures back then.
It's just intereting to me that one of the historical quirks is that the two events were weeks apart...
that in the summer of 1969 the just completed moon landing would have almost no impact to our lives 35 years later, but these bits between two computers would change the face of the world.
Weird...
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Jimmy Hoffa...
Look, Kay comes as close to someone I idolize in geek history, but it looks like the recent years are in 'trophy wife' mode. From HP...
He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, Disney Fellow, and is now President of Viewpoints Research Institute.
He's been at Apple (and elsewhere) already. Has his job been to be "Alan Kay"?
I sincerely don't know, but it looks, well, unusual...
Just want to add another voice - regular computer geek guy in Orlando who listens to local AM and FM but never heard of this.
Saw the headline and thought WTF. Maybe I should look into this "Local 6" thing...
Hell, Lake Eola is a great place downtown - I would have have enjoyed this...
My kids are doing "wi-fi" every afternoon with each other on their Nintendo DS's right now. Will be interesting to see how a 'Revolution' and the DS interact...
looks a little less today compared with its 'little brother' (the iMac 20")
20" Cinema Display : $1299
20" G5 IMac : $1899
That's a lot of extra gear for $600.00, isn't it? So, is the iMac a great deal or the Cinema Display now less of one?
And to think I was thiiiis close to picking up a Cinema 20" for my Powerbook...
I mean no disrespect to the significance of July 1968 - as Arthur C. Clarke wrote, in 500 years the only thing people may remember about the Unites States will be that event.
Space flight changed our view of the universe - no small thing but I think most people in 1969 (yep, me too as a boy) figured that event was the start of more than just a change in view, but a real opening of a frontier. At a nuts and bolts level, at 35 years in the future, the internet has changed more lives in the world. Just ask anyone from a third-world country who now has access to the world's information is a way almost unthinkable back then. The simple fact that me and you and a few hundred thousand of our closest friends from around the world are discussing this tonight is something that just amazes me when I think back on what people expected from their futures back then.
It's just intereting to me that one of the historical quirks is that the two events were weeks apart...
that in the summer of 1969 the just completed moon landing would have almost no impact to our lives 35 years later, but these bits between two computers would change the face of the world. Weird...
1) Write spyware
2) Team up with Yahoo!
3) ???
4) Profit!