Posts with keyword: computing

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Ambient Computing

Mon Feb 9 15:37:00 2015

Ambient computing is coming and it will have a bigger impact on your life than any change in the last 40 years.
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My Initial Thoughts on the iPad

Mon Apr 5 10:45:00 2010

Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr On Saturday, the UPS truck pulled up to the front of my house and dropped off a couple of iPads (32Gb, no 3G). The driver said they were delivering about 350 of them around Utah County that day. I spent a good part of rest of the weekend playing, exploring, and evalutating it. Here are my initial thoughts. First, as many have already said, the screen is gorgeous and the form factor incredible. The first thing many comment on when they first hold it is: this is beautiful. The device was a little
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Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things (ETech 2006)

Tue Mar 7 10:31:00 2006

The evening keynote (last night) was by Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things. This was one of those talks that is impossible to blog. Even a word-for-word transcript wouldn't do it justice because Bruce's delivery is as much a part of the content as what he says. I'm sure it will be on IT Conversations soon and I encourage you to listen to it there. Bruce's message was about language and the power of naming. He said, that when it comes to remote technology, you don't want to freeze your language too early. It limits the ability of
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Algorithmic Authorizations

Tue Jan 17 06:40:00 2006

Yesterday I was reading Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth and Scott D. Anthony and came across a story about how credit scoring changed the loan industry: In 1956, Fair, Issac created a standard predictive risk-assessment tool. It dramatically simplified the process of judging creditworthiness with a statistical methodology that plugged variables from an applicants credit history into an algorithmic formula that produced a score. Credit scoring's robust, scientifically based, quick assessment enabled a broader population of less-skilled people to make lending decisions. It occurred to me
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Computers That Control You

Fri Dec 16 16:51:00 2005

Commenting on my piece yesterday about TPM (trusted platform module) and computers that control you rather than the other way around, Jon Udell says: Presumably no controls take effect unless the TPM is not merely activated by the operating system, but also pressed into service to guard some piece of protected content. So in theory it needn't affect you if you're creating rich media that you intend others to use freely, or if you're using rich media that others have created with the same intent. From Jon Udell: Technologies of control, technologies of useReferenced Fri Dec 16 2005 16:54:14
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TPM and Positive ID

Thu Dec 15 09:45:00 2005

There's an article at MSNBC about how Trusted Computing Platform (TCP) chips, already installed in many computers, could be used to provide "positive ID" on the Internet and end anonymity. I find articles dealing with Internet identity in the mainstream media usually scare me--and this one is no exception. What scares me is the willingness people have to sweep aside technical hurdles, privacy concerns, and practicality in wide-eyed optimism about how technology will eventually solve all our Identity problems. With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple
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