In a previous post, I talked about mobile handphone being an integrated product as we traditionally see it. Personalization/Flexibility and Mobility are the two significant opposing forces playing their part in shaping the integrated Vs modular architectures. However, convergence of computing and enternatinment into handheld terminals or (most ubiquitous handphones) bring in a lot of software, content and service performance and [...]
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Modular Mobile Phones
Posted in Futures, Management of Technology on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Personalized Unified Web Portal and/or Profiling Service
Posted in Futures, Just fun! on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am a regular and frequent seasoned user of tons of services from yahoo, MSN, google, wordpress, linkedin, facebook, flickr and many more persoanlized work palce services yet others which are not very common especially related to academics and research. I have to signup for an endless plethora of websites…have to login twenties of time per day for [...]
Future of e-Gov and Market Rigidities affecting e-Gov!
Posted in Competitiveness, Futures, Technology Policy on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Institute of Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) is one of the seven research institutions of EU JRC. Two of their publications of e-Government caught my eye for very interesting data, arguments and implications, although I was looking for some other things at that instance. I am uploading the same for those interested.
The Future of e-Government; An exploration of ICT-driven [...]
IBM Millipede Project; MEMS-based Terabit Memory
Posted in Futures, S&T Convergence and Fusion on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the projects at IBM’s Zurich S&T Lab was IBM Millipede.Using this, data equivalent to about 25 DVDs (of today) can be stored in an area equal to a postage stamp. It is different from some other universities’ projects also called “Millipede” .
Watch on Youtube: how millipede works?. Successful Millipede prototype was showcased at 2005 [...]
Message from our Designers; Raelian Movement
Posted in Futures, Science and Technology on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
According to Rael, he was contacted by extraterrestrials in 1973, whom he calls our designers. They claim that they have created the humans by injecting DNA into this universe. Rael was asked to establish thier embassy. Find more at … http://rael.org/
Dr. Michio Kaku; Physics of the Impossible (March 2008)
Posted in Futures, Science and Technology on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The subject book is set to be on sale on March 11, 2008.
Michio is a theoretical physicist and a renowned futurist arguing humankind is at a turning point in history. In this century, we are going to make the historic transition from the ‘Age of Discovery’ to the ‘Age of Mastery’, a period in which [...]
Technology Foresight
Posted in Technology Foresight, Technology Policy on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These thoughts about Technology Foresight Concept/Programmes were collected from a section of the paper: J.S. Metcalfe, “Science policy and technology policy in a competitive economy”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol 24. No 7/8/9, 1997, pp 723-740. A systematic means of assessing those scientific and technological develoments which could have a strong impact in industrial [...]
