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 [...]

This post is a little overdue, so since I’m sure many of you have already visited sites like Engadget for CES coverage, I’ll keep this short. There are three areas that I thought there was a lot of focus which we’ll be hearing a lot more about this year. HD Proliferation Well, it looks like [...]

In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten used to subscribing to blogs as my main source of news and information. Mix that with listening to most of my music through a portable player and it’s gotten me thinking about how I consume media. My primary music player is a Zune, both as a portable [...]

While going through some of the presentations given at this year’s Mix Conference from Microsoft, I realized that while there was a good amount of effort put into showing how Microsoft is paying attention to the interactive user experience, the main focus seemed to be on advertising and what tools Microsoft provides for advertisers for [...]

A while ago, I came across a blog post on a “World Wide Mind”, referring to 22nd Century, a program which aired on PBS in January. It’s a pilot episode for one of 3 potential upcoming series. I got a chance to watch the episode a few weeks ago and have been talking about it [...]