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The Chrome notebook and really working on the web

January 26th, 2011

It’s been over a month since I got the Chrome notebook and I wanted to share my thoughts on it so far. Before I even get into it, I think I should mention that just the idea of a web-browser-only computer I was already sold on since the Chrome OS was announced and I’ve already [...]

Historic view of the future of media

August 8th, 2008

In 1934, Paul Otlet published the Treaties on Documentation: The Book on the Book where he not only predicts the concept of a computer and the Internet, but more interestingly (to me), he envisions the use of different forms of media. “These instruments taken as substitute for the book, will in fact become the new [...]

Technological advancements

January 4th, 2006

Some may say that these last couple of years have been rather slow for technology improvements. I would disagree. For years new hardware for the desktop computer has been developed. Since computers have come to the desktop, the challenge was always to develop hardware powerful enough to keep up with the software we wanted to [...]