We need to learn quickly to keep up with the massive change around us so we don't get run over. We need to outrun change.
Steve Cichon read through a stack of local papers from the first quarter of 1991 and discovered Everything From 1991 Radio Shack Ad I Now Do With My Phone.
Compression of size
In 23 years, all of the following products fit inside a phone: Continue reading “13 items in a 1991 Radio Shack ad fit in your phone today with a 90% drop in cost to buy the capabilities”
Check out these amazingly correct predictions in 1974 from a balding, gray-haired prophet. Check out the sideburns of the reporter:
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First computer I worked with in high school was about 4 feet tall, 8 feet long, and about 4 or 5 feet deep. The printer was about 5 feet tall, 5 feet wide, and 3 feet deep.
It is so exciting to look at the change taking place around us. There’s no better time to be alive and no better time to be engaged in living a full life. Here are a few articles that caught my eye to show the wide open new frontiers. A new space race? Amazon might get avian resistance to their new aerial delivery systems. China puts a rover on the moon.
Space
12-8 – Bloomberg Businessweek – Let the Space Price War Begin – Continue reading “More good stuff on the open frontiers – 12-20-13”
To learn.
To show the simplicity and ease of quality technology.
To have fun.
What videos?
I’ve produced several videos of airplane flybys at the Planes of Fame museum’s airshow in Chino, California. I’ll start mentioning them on this blog.
Learning
Continue reading “Why am I posting airplane videos on this blog?”
Check out this hi tech way for handling hot news.
During the 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas the debates received next day coverage in all the nation’s major newspapers.
How?
Amazing. The Boston Globe was sold for a negative sales price. The Washington Post is purchased by an individual for his personal portfolio.
How’s this for disruption – a 42% drop in the volume of point-and-shoot cameras shipped in the first five months of 2013.
Olympus expects their volume of low-end cameras to drop 50% this year compared to last.
Continue reading “The next industry to collapse – low-end digital cameras”
Update – Third attempt on 7-15-13 unsuccessful. Frequent failures are the price of innovation. Two successful landings is very cool.
Here’s an amazing first: a self-flying drone, the X-47B, took off from land at Patuxent NAS, flew to the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush and landed itself. It was then launched off the catapult and landed again.
Check out the video in the WSJ article: Navy Drone Successfully Lands on Aircraft Carrier.
There wasn’t an operator on the ground controlling the drone – it flew itself. Very cool.
Continue reading “Autonomous drone lands itself on aircraft carrier”
Don’t be too confident when you guess who will win the battles for market share and who is destined to disappear. Remember when Yahoo was the dominant search engine provider?
When that upstart outfit, Google, appeared on the scene in 1998 who would have predicted it to be the dominant search engine in 2013, a mere 15 years later?
My friend John Bredehoft creates a forecast from 1998 using information available at the time in his post, In which I apply the wisdom of 1998 to an old Salon article.
If he was blogging at the time, he guesses he would have not given Google much of a chance to succeed against Excite, Lycos, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. He would have guessed the new Disney search engine would fare better than Google and several others.
His hypothetical comment about Google: Continue reading “Be careful when predicting who will win the tech battles – search engine illustration”
Two profs at the University of Maryland, my alma mater, developed a remotely controlled ‘bird’ that can fly. The wings operate independently which provides lots of maneuverability.
This is cool, just by itself.
The next step is to add a small camera and small transmitter. Then you have a usable surveillance system
You can view the video in this article: Newly developed micro robot bird able to perform reconnaissance, surveillance.
You will need to watch a 15 second commercial before the news report starts.
Seems like every morning there is a big story with details of the vast array of surveillance conducted by the federal government. Here is a broad overview of news in the last 2 weeks.
Check out the Business Insider set of graphs showing how much better things have gotten in the last few decades or the last century.
31 Charts That Will Restore your Faith In Humanity.
A few of my favorites: Continue reading “31 charts showing things are getting better and better”
Check out this superb graph from Wired Magazine reposted by Carpe Diem – Chart of the day: The falling price of memory.
Fantastic illustration of how drastically storage prices have dropped in last 20 years.
Let’s look at the technology I’ve used to pass info back and forth to clients while at their office.
That we haven’t seen the full impact of IT is a comment I heard the first time a few years ago. That sort of made sense but didn’t really register. This blog is focused on sorting out that change. The idea that the technology revolution has barely begun finally clicked for me with a column by Matthew Yglesias – Why I’m Optimistic About Growth and Innovation.
A few industries have seen huge impact from technology. Think of book publishing, journalism, and music. Those industries have been turned upside down. I read a lot and listen to a bit of music so am quite attuned to those areas. The way everyone consumes news has been transformed. I regularly read dozens of blogs a day. They just appear on my computer screen with a mouse click or two. I’ve always been a news junkie, and my consumption has soared in the last few years.
However, as big as those industries are, they are a small part of the total economy.
Continue reading “Impact of the technology revolution has barely begun”
You will still take a cab to the doctor’s office. For a while. That is a post that guesses what the annual checkup might look like a decade from now.
A self-driving car takes you to the office. A friendly, perceptive, caring, automated voice talks you through your checkup. Sensors that don’t touch you run all the tests.
John Bredehoft paints an appealing picture. Check it out.
You’ll have to read the article to see John’s predictions for the destiny of Google, Facebook, and Apple.
Continue reading “What your visit to the doctor may look like in 2023”