The last time a human being walked on the Moon was in 1972. Close to half of the U.S. population has been born since then. It therefore falls to people over the age of 50 to recall the incredible excitement and sense of discovery and adventure that was the NASA Space program up to that […]
One of the trade offs we seem to have accepted during the past 20 years is a loss of privacy. None of us say we approve of that, but we have embraced technology in such a way that a diminished sense of privacy has occurred. The portability of storage and computing, as discussed on this […]
In a post two days ago I suggested that the Wii Video Game console from Nintendo was the clear winner in the new console competition with Sony’s PlayStation 3. I based this on the fact that the Wii was an innovative product that both opened up the gaming space to new participants and was highly […]
In the last ten years, video gaming has gone from being a peripheral social phenomenon for young and teenage boys to a central factor in today’s media and entertainment. Movies based on video games have been produced. TV executives talk about bringing the interactive gaming experience to television programming. Advertisers create games for brand positioning […]
It can be argued that the three most transformative technologies of the last twenty years are the personal computer, the Internet and the cell phone. I have written often in Evolution Shift about the first two, but not of the third, until now. As is often the case, a look into the future first entails […]
The first interactive game we play with infants is ‘peekaboo’. Once they can walk we move on to hide and seek. There is absolutely no one I know that can say that they never played hide and seek. This primitive, universal children’s game is where we often first use our intelligence in three dimensional space […]
The other day Tivo announced that it had created software to allow Internet Video on Television. The expected convergence of video, TV and the Internet is now in full force. As I wrote in an earlier post about Apple’s announcement of iTV, everything is converging onto the big flat screen in the living room. Channel […]
In both the first and second posts with this title I stated that while in many areas it might be difficult to see into the future, in the area of technology the future can be readily seen. The speed of technological invention and innovation moves so quickly that we have barely assimilated a recent breakthrough […]
Just when you thought you had caught up with the ever increasing speed of technology, along comes another breakthrough to make you feel unnerved by the speed of change. This week it was the stunning announcement of a breakthrough in chip technology that turned my head. As I read the articles about this, the thought […]
Steve Jobs made the expected announcement that Apple would market the iTV , the gadget that will link the Apple computer in the den to the television set in the living room. Most of the reporting on this announcement was around the coming wave of downloading movies onto the computer and then transferring them to […]