Year 2002's nearly come to an end: A look at Technology
New Scientist is carrying a story on the technological developopments that shook the world in 2002 along with some thoughts on their potential impact. In my view, nothing earthshaking with the exception of large studiios, device and CD manufacturers willingness to manipulate music consumers by introducing "copy protection" mechanisms that ultimately cause CD players and computers to malfunction. Ahh, i almost forgot: there is also a piece on Palladium - what ?MS? places its bets on and calls the future of secure computing!!!! Ha ha ha ha !!!. in the same article, censorship in China and circumventing censorship in China ( i love hacktivism!!!), chess games not to miss and nanotech.
Salon run a similar story a couple of days ago ironically titled "A year to forget" Far more interesting than the New Scientist one. Here we read that the blogosphere grows as strong as ever with the blogging community taking shape, open source/free software been uncurbed by the demise of Silicon Valley's exuberance, how Enron and corruption are the same thing, Bush's plans to further ruin the environment, and why the hell we all thought (at least i did) that the ?AOL- Time Warner? merger was the rational thing to do. Not to be missed, spam, copyright, pop-ups, ?MS? and orwellian governmental dreams are also there. Go get it now! [print version]
What 's your view? Wanna hear mine? Weblogs rule and they certainly appeared in my radar sooner and well before 2002 but still, I didn't have a personal blog before 2002, so i'll be naive not to agree that 2002 is the blogyear indeed. Bolgs aside, corporate greed and corruption went to a halt 9just like every other year) with Enrorn being the most prominent example, and ?MS? shortly following behind (it's just tha they know hoe to cover their traces). There is still hope for ?AOL? if Steve asks the winamp fellas to do something about it and rolls out services that hook people together just like the old times. Having been a mere observer of the IPO, start-up related snowballing craze that went down in the most sandy place that ever reigned in technology shake-outs, I'll certainly miss Silicon Valley:-). More later dudes.
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