In my post on predictions for 2007, I made a specific prediction that the current Internet 2.0 boom would continue and that eyeballs, dollars and influence would migrate from old media to the Internet. Now this isn’t crystal ball stuff. Media and advertising professionals live this reality every day. Just look at your own life. […]
In a recent post, I again touched on the theme of reaching a tipping point in consciousness regarding Global Warming. In that post, I mentioned early speculation about the up coming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Well, the other day, evidently after a lot of last minute back and forth on language […]
As most of you know, Moore’s law is named for Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel. In the mid 1960s he predicted that transistor computing power would double every 24 months. Ultimately, the popular translation of this hypothesis, and subsequent predictions he made, was that in the development of computers, the power of the computer […]
In an earlier post, I wrote that the cell phone was a transformative technology. The cell phone, the personal computer, and the Internet are the three most transformative technologies of the last twenty years, as they have altered the fundamental concepts of time and space as it relates to human communication. The interesting current phenomenon […]
Nanotechnology is one of the ‘next big things’ in our future. People have elevated it to a level of near worship as the way to solve, and in some cases revolutionize a number of areas of human life. It certainly has that potential, but nanotechnology will take us into uncharted areas and we must be […]
In my look back at 2006, I wrote that it was during last year that we reached a tipping point regarding global warming and alternative energy. This is becoming more clear with each passing week. During the first week of 2007 it was unseasonably warm across most of the U.S. The media coverage of this […]
This is the second week in a row of attending an important convention in Las Vegas. Last week was the largest consumer electronic convention, CES. This week a Television convention that is in its forty-fourth year and which, for the past two decades has been very important and influential, NATPE.. Last week a convention about […]
When I made the post with my 2007 predictions, I wrote that I would revisit the predictions from time to time, both to explore them more deeply or to reference them as events warranted. One of the specific predictions (#3) I made was that gasoline will climb over $3 a gallon nationally and over $4 […]
Ten years ago the word convergence was most often used when predicting the convergence of the television set and the computer. Granted there were things like PDAs that synched up to a computer, but the PDA could go into the pocket and the computer could not. As we all know, it was the cell phone […]
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show there are hundreds of companies touting new gadgets that are “revolutionary†“innovative†“at the cutting edge†and “totally coolâ€. I will leave the descriptions of all these to the mainstream media as they already excessively cover this convention. Instead I will give you some view on the larger […]