… take a look at the last ten years of cell phone evolution and then consider the current pace of evolution in bionics: Kuniholm and his fellow engineers at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL, are at work on the most ambitious prosthetics project in history. They seek the field’s holy grail — [...]
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Value Shift: When Silicon Is Almost Free
In iPhone Mesh, I referenced an article that quotes Steve Jobs saying “If you look at the iPhone, it’s software wrapped in wonderful hardware,” So it would appear that real value is in the software because as Alan Kay said a quarter century ago, while at Apple – “hardware is just software crystallized”. Forbes columnist [...]
Gear Mesh: Power To The Peers
There’s broad recognition that the Google Gears announcement is one of high impact, but I haven’t seen anyone getting close to just how big. Yes, working offline is important, but it’s not new. As Dave Winer points out, the Radio blogging system was doing it in 2001. It actually goes back further than that as [...]
Shift Into Mesh
Marketing maven John Winsor is engaged in the kind of critical thinking I support about the big simulation given how rapidly things are changing. He links to an eye-opening video of factoids about change that ends with “shift happens” – gotta love it!
Nanomesh
In my last post, I implied that nanotech will play a key role in the evolution of the meshverse. While at first glance, that may seem a bit speculative, I’ve writing about this since 2002 and more recently pointed out the near-term business case for linking information and nanoscale technologies. Ray Kurzweil recently pointed out [...]
Viral vs Exponential Growth and the Meshverse Paradigm
I agree with the author of MySpace Viral Growth Numbers that “true viral growth” isn’t inherently exponential but rather only starts out that way. It is worth noting however that “true” paradigm shifts like the web and the meshverse, create entirely new market segments and impact many different ones. MySpace was just an extension of [...]
Second Life Meshes With Amazon S3
Second Life is focused on growing their virtual world grid. With an exponentially growing subscriber base, handling major updates became a challenge for their web presence. Rather than reinvent the wheel, they’ve turned to another proven grid: And since Amazon’s in the web-hosting business a lot more than we are, I suspect availability and reliability [...]
The Virtual Is Real – Just Do The Math
“In Second Life, we’re making Reuters part of a new generation,” Reuters Chief Executive Tom Glocer said in a statement. “We’re playing an active role in this community by bringing the outside world into Second Life and vice versa.” Virtual News Bureau Opens In Second Life There is a lot of reporting to do where [...]
