Analysis archives
Life After Net Neutrality
For the past few months, in the United States, a fight has been brewing over how the pipes that control the Internet would be ruled. On one side, activists and large Internet companies felt that access to the Internet should be neutral and that all sites should be accessed in the same fashion. On the [...]
Tags: Broadband, Google, Microsoft, United States, Wireless, Yahoo
Future Tense – Conclusion
What is interesting here is that a lot of the trends we will see over the next few years are about blurring distinctions between online and offline world. I used to joke around that I lived online and went to the real world just for power sources but, as a new generation that considers online [...]
Tags: United States
Future Tense – Participatory Applications
But so far, my whole focus in this series of articles has been on technology. However, technology itself is undergoing a radical shift, and I would venture to say that we are now entering a new era of cybernetics. Tim O’reilly, in his description of Web 2.0 said that The central principle behind the success of the [...]
Tags: Computing, Google, software platform
Future Tense – Sensors
Today, internet technology is largely seen as centering around the concept of websites and a few applications that are network aware. However, when combined with Moore’s law, which dictates that processor roughly double in speed every 24 months, and its economic corollary, which means that the price of processor will drop along similar lines, the [...]
Future Tense – IPzation
Google returns 0 results for this at the time I’m writing this entry. The concept of IPzation, in my view, is that everything electronic interaction is moving to a level where the communication will happen over an Internet Protocol layer. We are already starting to see the beginning of that phenomenon with Voice Over IP, [...]
Tags: Advertising, Google, Telephony, VOIP, Video
Future Tense – Always On
Readers of this site know that I’m a proponent of living an always connected lifestyle. My previous views on the subjects looked to applications that lived partly on the edge of the network and partly off it, a class of applications I called Hybrid Computing. As broadband access to the net becomes more prevalent, those [...]
Tags: Broadband, Electricity, Google, Telephony, United States
