thehumansarecoming

I, somewhat reluctantly, flew back into Glasgow this morning. I've been working up for for the last few weeks, returning to London for the weekends. Glasgow is a dreary city. It's rough, industrial, working class reputation is well earned and evident everywhere you look. Not the kinda place you look forward ...

This months issue of Wired Magazine is running a great series of articles about the Petabyte Age. Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so ...

Please forgive the complete randomness of this post. This a excerpt of an email sent to the geowankers, a mailing list for people interest in experimenting with geolocation technologies. Anslem Hook's vision for location aware technologies... But there is a trajectory - I hope it goes like this: 1) To be able ...

I just upgraded my phone to a Nokia N95 a few weeks ago. Pretty impressive phone on paper, but to be honest it's a bit underwhelming in practice. That said, wifi and gps in your handset is still a big leap forward. The My Location feature on Google Maps Mobile ...

[Original post, September 2006] This really interesting post over at O'Rielly Radar a few days ago got me thinking. I've been saying so for years. Long before I was calling it Web 2.0, in my talks about the future "internet operating system," I always have had a slide called "A Platform Beats ...