My wife is flying back home right now, and I've got to pick her up from the airport. In one window, I've got a display of the plane's flight track from FlightAware. In another window, I'm running a Google Earth satellite image with her plane's current position superimposed, thanks to fboweb.com. In yet another window, I'm running streaming audio of the airport tower courtesy of … [Read more...] about Are We Living In the 21st Century or What?
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Apple’s Knowledge Navigator – 1987
I first saw this technology concept video about 20 years ago at a presentation at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Part of NCSA's mission was to explore personal computing applications that required supercomputer-level processing at the time, but which would make sense in the future when everyone has a … [Read more...] about Apple’s Knowledge Navigator – 1987
A Taste of Future Shock
My wife and I got my mother a Tivo DVR this Christmas. It was a calculated risk. My mother is in her 80's and doesn't like learning to use new stuff. On the other hand, she has a VCR which she manages to use, but she gets confused about the whole tune-the-TV v.s. tune-the-VCR issue, and sometimes she uses the wrong remote or gets some part of the system (TV, VCR, remote) into a … [Read more...] about A Taste of Future Shock