The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's Audblog
Monday, January 12, 2004
TIME: September 11 ? Essay ? Get Ready for the Next Long War
TIME: September 11 ? Essay ? Get Ready for the Next Long War: "If Sept. 11 is the forerunner of a new world conflict, coping with the conflict could bring a new constitutional order in its wake. In the 21st century, what might be called 'market states' could replace nation-states. Market states will have the same borders and political systems as nation-states but will shift important responsibilities from government to the private sector; multinational corporations will become surrogate agents of government, filling roles that government can no longer play and blurring the boundaries between political and corporate leadership. Because the market is private, global and transactional, market states are better able than nation-states to cope with a war that is partly private, partly international and partly defensive, as future wars will be."
InfoWorld: The era of the PHPC: January 09, 2004: By Tom Yager: Application Development
InfoWorld: The era of the PHPC: January 09, 2004: By Tom Yager: Application Development: "To succeed in her field, a producer needs the freedom to experiment, to shape a vision through painless trial and error. Her world changed when she could move through multilayered content in real time or faster, pull whole projects into other projects, and borrow sequences from other producers while effortlessly adding her own touch.
I love this metaphor because it encapsulates the idea of profitable creativity, and it maps directly to technology. Unleashing the creativity of the producer requires a computer, or cluster of computers, that manages more content, even terabytes of it, than one could fit on a high-definition TV. It races and corners and reverses course as fast as the producer’s mind does. I refer to the technology capable of such feats personal high-performance computers. PHPCs will make changes well beyond the realm of media, but media remains a good metaphor. Imagine what television will be, what film will be, when a whole generation of students has never seen “Now rendering, please wait.” "
InfoWorld: Bluetooth to the rescue: January 09, 2004: By Chad Dickerson: Wireless
InfoWorld: Bluetooth to the rescue: January 09, 2004: By Chad Dickerson: Wireless: "This experience encapsulated so many benefits about technology that I don?t really know where to begin. There?s the wireless angle, the smart phone angle, the utility of Bluetooth, and the maturation of the Internet itself as a tool for the average person to get things done in daily life. For me, though, the experience demonstrates something more transcendent than any one technology: when quick thinking and the right solution come together at the right time, technology can be downright heroic. In my daily work, I sometimes get bogged down in budgets and management issues that have nothing to do with technology, but in the end, it?s the sheer wonder of technology that energizes me. "
