Wednesday, July 23, 2003

SJ Mercury: Studios demanding too much in their copyright campaign. Dan Gillmor. The cartel believes -- and basically says -- that fair use is something copyright holders may provide or withhold at their whim. This stance tells customers they have no rights, except to spend or not spend. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:02:03 AM

Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You. "Where are the flying cars we were promised?" Avery Brooks is quite excited, and not in a good way. In a commercial for IBM, he rails about how disappointed society is because all the great technological advances we were promised a few decades ago still aren't here. No flying cars, no space travel, no giant domed cities, no anti-gravity belts, no warp drive ...aside from the remote control, mankind has not made a significant advance in technology in the last 50 years. The next 50 years promises to be different. In this article, I will examine disruptive technologies that will likely impact us in the next half century, some of which we've been waiting for impatiently, others we've barely conceived of yet. [kuro5hin.org] 9:01:30 AM

Konfabulator 1.5 updates JavaScript engine [The Macintosh News Network] 9:00:53 AM