The Guardian (GameBlog) has a list: Augmented reality, Location-based gaming, Creative gaming, Communication gaming, Personalisation, Spontaneous multiplayer, Ad-hoc networking, Emotional gaming, Pervasive gaming, Multiple perspective gaming.
Day: June 21, 2005
Broadband Options
Forbes discusses alternatives to cable and DSL: high altitude platforms, broadband over power lines, broadband in gas, fixed cellular, WiMax, satellite and fibre to the home.
Intel’s Platform Shift
Forbes writes:
[Intel’s] Professional Business Platform will include a microprocessor, a chipset and several other features combined into a single package.
Intel’s approach with the desktop platform is to duplicate what it did with its Centrino platform for notebook PCs, which offered PC manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Gateway a single package comprised of a lot of the basic components needed to build a computer: the microprocessor, chipset and integrated wireless-networking and power consumption control.
One notable feature aimed at corporate IT managers is the ability to manage PCs remotely, even if they’re turned off. Intel says its Active Management Technology will allow technicians to make changes to PCs from remote locations as long they’re plugged into a power outlet and connected to the Internet or to an internal corporate network.
The Open Cellphone
WSJ writes:
“The personal computer for the rest of the world isn’t going to be the personal computer. It’s going to be the cellphone,” says John Sviokla, 47, the vice chairman of DiamondCluster International, a Chicago-based technology-consulting company. “Communication is more important than computation on the human hierarchy of need.”
But before that can happen, the cellphone is going to have to change. Specifically, cellphone companies have to surrender their control over the phone’s features and capabilities. If phones had standard ports — such as USB connections — innovators could develop their own applications without having to wait for the cellular provider to offer them.
“Think of what happened with personal computers when they opened up the architecture,” Dr. Sviokla says. “Personal innovation flourished,”
So what would he add if he could? He lists a scanner that would enable him to store business-card information in the phone, a global-positioning system, a radar detector, a flash-memory reader that would allow the phone to serve as a portable hard drive and a fingerprint reader “so I could lock my phone by touching it and unlock it by touching it,” Dr. Sviokla says, noting that several vendors provide the technology, but it isn’t available on any phones on the market.
“The phone companies cannot possibly market all the options that people might come up with,” Mr. Sviokla says. “If they open the device, then the market of new adopters can discover the most popular combinations, and then the big guys can pick the popular things and merchandise them extensively.”
China IPTV Update
The China Stock Blog has an overview of the activity.
TECH TALK: Letter to a 2005 Baby: 10 Big Ideas (Part 2)
Dear Abhishek,
2. All the Worlds Information At Your Fingertips
We are finally getting to a vision articulate by Bill Gates many years ago information at your fingertips. When I was growing up, the school and college libraries were huge repositories of information Every so often, if I wanted to know and explore more, I would go to the British Council Library. I found the IIT library staggeringly large extending to multiple floors. Twenty years later, we are on the threshold of having most of the worlds digital information searchable and accessible from a computer connected to the Internet. Google has played a large part in making this massive digital library possible with its search engine. Even though most of it is still text-based, technologies to search multimedia content are now becoming available.
You may find it a little funny that for a long time it was easier to search the world wide web of information than it was to search our own hard disks! Sometimes, that which is closest to us can be the furthest from us. (This is a deep statement having repercussions beyond just technology!) Of course, in your world, you will probably not even know the difference between local and remote storage. (Besides, unlike us, you will never run out of disk space.)
So, the question that arises is: what will you do with access to all the worlds information past and present no more than a few clicks (or voice commands) away? More information does not necessarily mean more knowledge or wisdom. You will need to intelligently chose your sources which provide you the necessary insights. Use this freedom to access the worlds information judiciously. Sometimes, less is more.
3. It is a Flat World
Let us shift gears for a moment away from technology. Tom Friedman wrote a wonderful book called The World Is Flat, which he describes as a brief history of the 21st century. What he means is that various technological development and political events have come together to create opportunities for individuals and countries which had been hitherto left behind. In the words of Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, this has created a platform where intellectual work, intellectual capital, could be delivered from anywhere. It could be disaggregated, delivered, distributed, produced and put back together again — and this gave a whole new degree of freedom to the way we do work, especially work of an intellectual nature. You will grow up in a world where the playing field has been levelled, a Flat World. And my generation is just about coming to terms with this new reality and the world of opportunities that it opens up for us.
Tomorrow: 10 Big Ideas (continued)
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