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  • Enduring trends

    Technologists are enthusiasts. Their progress are documented in hockey-stick trends. Meanwhile  we as ordinary human are still reacting out of fear as if we were still living in caves. The reptilian brain vs rapid rise of chip speed, guns vs germs, technology vs anthropology! As early as 1950’s, graduates would hear something like: “boy, you get…

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  • Twitter and Twister

    The later brought destruction to the Mid_West, but its impact is immediate, albeit regional. The former more dangerous, simmering and long-tailed. 140 characters are more than enough to assassinate a character, his/her reputation which is built up over a life time. Be careful. Social malaise not social media in the wrong hands. Not enough post,…

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  • With the exception of Yahoo, we can pretty much use the other two as verbs i.e. to Xerox s/t or to Google it. When your company is a household “action” verb, you have it made. Yahoo got a head start, with strong brand recognition. But it flounders (even MySpace, as cool as it once was, couldn’t escape this…

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  • We conjured up symbols, codes and instructions for machine to act. Now that the machine does most of the work. It’s time to play? Not necessarily, because machines get smarter. So, we have to upgrade our own software to keep up since there is no return to hunting and harvesting.From Malthusian and Moore’s law.  from Bowling…

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  • If Rip Van Winkle woke up today, he would be surprised to see Facebook. If he had waken up a decade ago, he would have read about Google.And the decade before that, Microsoft. Except this time, Mark Zuckerberg is much younger than the other founders, dominated the media landscape quicker . And he donated part…

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  • We have put in long hours, uploading, editing, “friending”, texting, in-mailing, posting, commenting, searching and even reading up on and seeing a movie about Facebook. A recession distraction? or tip of the iceberg in what is finally Personal Computing and Networking? At least, computer finally “think” out of its “computing” box. Now, it’s about lifestyle…

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