Today's Topic = Appreciating History Perspectives.
Datamation interview with Ray Tomlinson who invented e-mail in 1971 and was honored for a lifetime of innovation by Discover magazine.
His current research is on tools and agents to solve logistical problems for the government.
He thinks that if e-mail does not get killed off by spam, he thinks that in the future it will be more integrated with other forms of computer communication.
He thinks spam should be cureable by better technology, but not viruses and worms.
Someone should turn him on to Radio Weblogging Aggregation as an alternative to e-mail.
I would like to have a business card scanner that updates the speed dial talk memory of my telephone, so I can SAY "Call Virginia" and the telephone dials her number, then when everyone has that technology the volume of wrong numbers to me would drop, or I get e-mail from someone and it has their snail mail address - I push a button and it updates my snail mail address book.
Datamation used to be a great dead tree computer magazine, but now they are purely an Internet resource, worth periodically checking out. I was reminded of this by the latest Search Day at:
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