Digital Legacy In these days of heightened environmental consciousness, you probably have some notion of what your ‘carbon footprint’ is; however, few people consider their ever-expanding ‘digital footprint’ or its ramifications in the event of their inevitable demise. Not so many years ago, when a loved one passed away, it was a relatively easy matter…
The Ultimate Office? As I sit here typing, at an outpost deep in the jungle, some 60 miles from the ancient Mayan ruins of Calakmul, I can’t help but wonder how I ever lived without remote access technology. Margarita half consumed on the rattan table beside my similarly rough-hewn chair, I ponder just how far…
Instant messaging (IM) has revolutionized the way people communicate on so many levels it truly amazes me that it wasn’t widely adopted until the recent past. You see, despite the fact that AOL / Time Warner was only issued a patent for IM in December of 2002, instant messaging has been around for a long…
When I purchased my very first cellular telephone, I found myself among a select club of early adopters who were regarded by those not so equipped as necessarily well to do – most probably enjoying some fabulous lifestyle which involved jetting around the globe, brokering deals with oil barons and the like. While status was…
Digital technology has freed us from the yoke of traditional content delivery mechanisms in ways we, scant years ago, could never have imagined. No more need we schedule our lives according to the designs of media conglomerates in order to partake of their wares; digital delivery affords us the luxury of entertainment consumption in a…
Let me start off by saying that Adobe, with this latest, most comprehensive offering to date, has raised the bar to such a degree that competitors would be hard pressed to even think about matching it in terms of features and component integration with the whole. Including Illustrator, Adobe’s vector graphics package, Photoshop, the raster…
Metropolitan Wireless Internet Access The Promise For years, wires have been the bane of my domestic existence. As an electronic musician and a techie, I have had wires of every variety snaking throughout my home, getting underfoot and causing no end of head scratching determining which of them is at fault in any given communications…
Industry mavens have been predicting the advent of convergence for years. Had the public actually bought into this prognostication however, we’d all be seated in front of our computers every time we wished to make a phone call, watch television, see a movie, check our messages or listen to music. Currently though, none of these…
Last month we undertook a preliminary investigation of an emerging, and potentially planet altering technology, distributed computing. Now that we have an understanding regarding the fundamentals of the model upon which it functions, we will examine the potential consequences of its implementation from the perspective of business, and society in general. So, great… we have…
Ok, you heard it here first: the “supercomputer” is dead. “What?” you say, “didn’t the US government just spend $110,000,000 on a 106 ton, 2 basketball court sized behemoth to model nuclear explosions?” Yep. IBM’s RS/6000 SP based system dubbed ASCI White was switched on in August, much to the certain delight of atoll dwellers…