January 27th, 2010 |
by elisabeth |
published in
Future of the Internet, Generativity, censorship, iphone, kindle, ubicomp | 3 Comments
The Extraordinaries Haiti Earthquake Support Center. A followup post on the Extraordinaries’ efforts to use ubiquitous human computing to help find missing people after the Haiti earthquake — a positive vision inspired by JZ’s nightmare scenario of crowdsourced secret police work. Did they succeed? “Yes and no”—but, as they detail, there’s obvious potential [...]
July 22nd, 2009 |
by jz |
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Future of the Internet, Generativity, Web 2.0 platforms, kindle | 6 Comments
Here’s a copy of Monday’s NYT op-ed about cloud computing. The Kindle/Orwell incident broke about ten minutes before the piece closed. (The original new hook, somewhat oddly, was the announcement of the Google Chrome OS — not at all bad in itself, but a milestone on our progression from PC to cloud.)
February 9th, 2009 |
by jz |
published in
Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, kindle | 7 Comments
Amazon has just introduced its second-generation Kindle book substitute. As a reader, I’m intrigued — I can download a bunch of books and apparently use it for days without a charge. Looking at the overall IT ecosystem, I’m also intrigued, but for opposite reasons.
The downloading takes place over an “EVDO modem with fallback to 1xRTT; [...]
