KP Tech Watch (6/8/2010): Good Grief!!!
We're so hooked on Gadgets, it seems not to be funny anymore. This came home to me when I saw Monday's Front Page of the New York TImes. It showed a Silicon Valley Couple going through their ipad's during breakfast. This is really taking it too far!!!
Monday was an eventful day in the tech world. It saw Apple finally roll out iphone 4.0 and a whole variety of products on the software side. I see the multi-tasking feature to be quite exciting. The iphone features is something that I am particuarly jazzed over. Besides a 5 MP camera, it gives you the ability to actually produce movies on the iphone. Now, how cool is that!?!?!? Wow is the only word I could truly find to explain that. What I found strange was Netflix announcing an applet for the iphone. Why would anyone want to do that now that AT&T has stopped the unlimited data plan is beyond me.
As I have begun to shift a bit of my focus within KP to focus more on technology, I continue to be focused on the Social Policy aspects of the continued evolution in Technology. This information addiction we all seem to have is overwhelming us. We are being drowned in data. When we are producing a petabyte of data (equivalent to the entire collection of all US libraries), I have to wonder when this madness is going to stop. The fact is that it will not stop and will continue to push us. The myth has been that we become more productive by multi-tasking all the time. The fact is that we have to be focused on a challenge so that we can solve it the right way. Otherwise, we will end up being frustruated, stressed and hopeless.
As I continue to marvel at Apple's continued innovation, I also view HP's annoucement about the revolution in printing to be interesting. I think that printing is not going to be as vibrant going forward. HP seems to disgree by coming out with web-based printers that has its' own email addresses. I guess they're figuring that they could only milk ink toners for so long. Let's see what the market will bear in that respect.
One thing is always for sure: It is never a disappointment to see our continued technological evolution. I have not been disappointed, yet--and this is coming from someone who cut his teeth writing Fortran Code on punch cards. Look at where we have come!!!!
Monday was an eventful day in the tech world. It saw Apple finally roll out iphone 4.0 and a whole variety of products on the software side. I see the multi-tasking feature to be quite exciting. The iphone features is something that I am particuarly jazzed over. Besides a 5 MP camera, it gives you the ability to actually produce movies on the iphone. Now, how cool is that!?!?!? Wow is the only word I could truly find to explain that. What I found strange was Netflix announcing an applet for the iphone. Why would anyone want to do that now that AT&T has stopped the unlimited data plan is beyond me.
As I have begun to shift a bit of my focus within KP to focus more on technology, I continue to be focused on the Social Policy aspects of the continued evolution in Technology. This information addiction we all seem to have is overwhelming us. We are being drowned in data. When we are producing a petabyte of data (equivalent to the entire collection of all US libraries), I have to wonder when this madness is going to stop. The fact is that it will not stop and will continue to push us. The myth has been that we become more productive by multi-tasking all the time. The fact is that we have to be focused on a challenge so that we can solve it the right way. Otherwise, we will end up being frustruated, stressed and hopeless.
As I continue to marvel at Apple's continued innovation, I also view HP's annoucement about the revolution in printing to be interesting. I think that printing is not going to be as vibrant going forward. HP seems to disgree by coming out with web-based printers that has its' own email addresses. I guess they're figuring that they could only milk ink toners for so long. Let's see what the market will bear in that respect.
One thing is always for sure: It is never a disappointment to see our continued technological evolution. I have not been disappointed, yet--and this is coming from someone who cut his teeth writing Fortran Code on punch cards. Look at where we have come!!!!
Mike Pouraryan
