Cosmic Cursor

Constructive tone is recommended for smart markets after recent election upset, or perhaps it’s just a meteorological mashup. In any case, the Internet means business. Time may be seen as racing ahead, so minutiae may be interesting to futurist historians, e.g. regarding rise of the digital economy. Governments are obviously competing for control. In the US, large corporations seem to own the court so press probably begins to probe partisan boardroom battles. Consultants may emerge as staff is shed. After the ‘87 meltdown, Congress sought to maximize tax income and required incorporation for these individuals. Fed, state, local and global may look to some like orthogonal street signs. The adage seems to be that, after the rhetoric, government resists reductions in cost increases until that itself becomes the bubble. Workaround may be for organizations to handle reporting and persons ideas. (Attempt to keep straight-face.) Reputations and referrals then follow. Have previously discussed opportunities for interoperability in new official computer systems; this assumes any corruption is constantly cleared, however past pardons indicate things do not always progress in a direction of protecting the public. Take it to your leaders.

Wetpaint recently had issues regarding ads raising caution flags in browser, but was still usable. NFL playoffs haven’t been the same for the past couple of seasons without the Pats. Other than that, no China exploits to report. Activity at the outposts:

“You Are Not a Gadget”, Lanier 2010.

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Invited that is. Question for the analysts: After the past three decades, and present seeming fubar status, what are likely spinoffs for industry? The details probably work themselves out, though it may not recognize itself afterward. State reporting is laborious, especially for entrepreneurs, though late fees are a quick profit. Citizens have own opinions about senate, paid for by mounting losses. It is not clear what special interests have in store for next decade. Whoever is selected for national will have a challenge past rebound sentiments. What would really be effective, how citizens deal with berserker regs, and better globalism factors for self-determination are still to be discerned. On a society note, human rights is still trying to find its way to the street. When the boss’s away, the mob will play. Marshalling of arbiters and enforcers is not a complete solution; noone said liberty is blind, only attempting escape. It is not about guilt or the good who are prostheticized young. There may be a hidden “for all” in the balance. (The one without weakness is too elusive.) The rest continue to count their fingers or use cutouts. In the absence of science, mythology may become more mainstream, though revolts are still subject to reason. The new year justifies optimistic initiatives, some will be longer-term. Economic upturns will choose their champions. Errors of past decade will be better understood and corrected to avoid repetition and worsening. Collaboration may have new branches past open-source, web and social, e.g. multi-enterprise perhaps as early aspect of cloud. Academics tend to weigh ideas carefully. Conversely, fiction, art or music may be more imaginative, impulsive, irrational and reflect dynamics of real world representations or responses. Answers in drama are not prohibited yet.

Cloud Aided Design

Happy 2010! As the new year begins, a decent realization is that the cell phone has become the point mass for a lot of activities. Surfing is mobile, possibly until it hits a google wave. We have weathered web2.0 and skyrocketing social networks. Our memories in words and videos are uploaded to social media. The device is a workspace and dashboard. It is also a purchasing portal that can read a credit card or act as one, or broker bartering. It may try the sanity of the state which is working out its own glitches and gotchas concerning validation and authentication previously handled by mail, phone or visit. Expect other levels of management and administration to soon follow which may lead to better data visibility and accountability extending not only to the future, but also to the revealed past. What do we know and when will we know it? Reality now includes augmentation, automation and games. The scale of participants is passing another tipping point. If one can’t already detect observers from the data, can change something arbitrarily and listen for who screams. Or we learn to rapidly reorganize without models when perspective is the point. Enterprises are about to morph from email entanglement to semantic manufacturing. It is expected that ecommerce will get a boost from the cloud matrix and stimulate startups.

A lot of things are still unrealized for many including feedback, proxy, answers, alerts, avatars, agents, resources, reinforcements, data sources, or sensors. Might be nice to get fees or a retainer for appliance-based ads or commissions for pro portals. It becomes a challenge as to how to get expertise when lacking the internet. Economic caution is warranted to avoid indentured servitude where rental replaces any ownership, and leaders are summarily sentenced for large-scale liabilities. If science funding has to revert to some form of crowdsource, marketing is a competitor of education. Perhaps there will be realtime translation of technical terminology or automatically generated news video tabloids. What are the requirements, opportunities, spending, competition, standards and best fit? Save that scheme or algorithm for implementation as a service or filter since somebody will probably need it.

Nowzilla

The web is in New Year prediction mode which seems impressionist at best. To project to the extreme, is it the end of tech? Depends upon which issues are picked. In combination, they do not agree. Conclusions also change depending upon scope: Time-scales, Topics, Decades, or Centuries.

What happens when we reach constraints? Previous stuff becomes efficient. New stuff innovates. There is an attempt to remove barriers. Generations of hardware versions pass. Tech yields more solutions. And becomes a constraint. The learning curve is exponential. It exceeds individual and group capacities. Recursion is probably tangential since it is still weighed down by human context. A course of likelihoods can be plotted through the end of this century, then may be replaced (or annihilated). Reason and expectation are not dependent upon it. Description and prediction are functions of models, without which there is (an end to) illusion. Result is actual. Timeframes may be +/- a decade depending upon resolution scale. Hopes and concerns may be age-dependent. The planet may crash at some point. Scifi would enumerate fears and responses. At what point can we afford to discard tech? Other theories have one equation, mind, machine, algorithm, or type. The observer has identity, it is self that recognizes other by interaction. Perspective is by assignment. One may see position, another momentum. Groups compare notes. Simultaneously, complexity exceeds human capabilities for control. We can pick any element as descriptor and configure relationships to the rest. “All is ___”. Leverage complexity as its own consciousness. Life does. For a while, tech is still about humans, though eventually no longer by them. As usual, shuffle items for varied imaginative experiences. Punctuation is voluntary.

Decades could be labeled mainframe, minicomputers Route 128 microprocessors, PC Internet, 90s Silicon valley web dotcoms, 00s opensource search web2.0 Asia surveillance. 10s digital society socnets avatars realtime video sensors ecommerce semantics education, 20s physical quality energy international security privatization medical, 30s synthetic intelligence human nature DIY materials, 40s emotional freedoms selection of physiological forms, 50s spiritual transformation.

Centuries might have ocean exploration, democracy, science industrialization, 20th quantum physics space exploration internet web, 21st nanotech materials design human essence archives individual recreated from memory civilization choices time solved complex dimensionality unified existences.

Tags track bookmarks, books, software, services, hardware and businesses. Past topics were embedded systems, web2.0, semantic web, and agile. The top 10 personal delicious tags are: security, test, software, web, network, mobile, search, web2.0, social-networks and business. The economy is reportedly growing in Asia and India, solid in Europe and Australia, and recovering in UK and US. Trending terms may be a foreshadow. Realtime features appear for search and analytics. Ecommerce grows, including mobile office/payments/banks in addition to socnets and devices. Video is streaming at higher bandwidth and fibre is competition to home cable. TV’s are 3D. The cloud means business. Games are realistic. Virtualization is an option. Augmented reality is fun. Creativity abounds.

Status Que

What is Wave?

Google Wave is in beta as a form of hosted communications. A topic can have ongoing entries from contacts who attach messages, pictures, videos, maps and files. Email-like search is enabled. It can reportedly be embedded into other web pages or blogs. There are extensions for conferencing and interfaces to social networks such as twitter.

It has been said that users have profiles and organizations have pages, at least as far as Facebook and LinkedIn are concerned. A difference from Twitter is that there does not yet seem to be public visibility which is also similar to web2.0 features of O'Reilly Safari books online.

Test Information Space has multiple components including profiles, bookmarks, Q&A, blogs, wiki, notes, files, multimedia and socnets.

Some measures might include:

How is usability?

Does it improve accessibility, e.g. realtime and mobile?

How can blips be categorized?

Does it handle feeds?

How can streams be filtered?

What mashups are useful?

How can dashboards be applied?

What level of discovery is there, e.g. for relevant contacts or recommendations?

What is support for analytics and datamining?

Is the perspective top-down, bottom-up, inside-out, all-at-once, or yet another mask?

Adding contact Bloggy, blog-wave@appspot.com, should publish. It was not activated on the preview version yet.

Reference: Getting Started with Google Wave Ferrate 2009.

Links: wave

Post-Review

What is your opinion of this {idea, book, product, system, media, economy, year, decade, culture}? Any recommendations?

As trends 2.010 go, scifi is in hiatus. Party-goers are served irony and ice. Stereotypes trump sensibilities. Eastern projections edge UK, Orwellian that is. Yoda yields to literature and art, but gweilo/gaijin/gringo groundwork needs improvement. Sustainable sites seek alternative to ads.

In the meantime, can record recent changes in how one sees (or hears) along the route to a review. There are more permutations than only prof, PC, and professional society. Lessons learned from the trials of Test Information Space include how the gentle reader can comment and collaborate on CMS and socnets, and plan professional projects.

Can briefly consider Q&A in this context.

How do you write a review? Tweets tend to be punchy. Blogs have more beats per minute. Reports are arranged for defense. Point out:

• the purpose,
• how well it was achieved,
• use cases,
• tips,
• constraints,
• comparative approaches,
• suggestions for improvement, and
• constructive conclusions.

How has reading changed? Ebooks can be skimmed rapidly multiple times for gist and memorization. Search is selective. Metadata is maintainable. Notes are navigable. Socnets provide second opinions.

What are types of reviewers? Casual users provide a personal experience, experts extrapolate from datapoints and error bars, researchers rank and emphasize additional efforts, and paid reviewers repeat the party line.

How has consumption changed? May buy something to blog about, evaluate embargos, elect extradition, or bargain-hunt banned brands.

Where do you find good reviews? This is user-specific. List favorite feeds. Ask friends, e.g. Facebook. As always, desire access to original data.

Turns out that the ability to sense something implies that it has already been cognitively categorized so, if in doubt, one can always sleep on it. Otherwise just cast a keyword, e.g. whodunit.

Also see review.

Where’s the pi?

The mobile market is more than a moving target. Its shape is a multiple derivative of other fields. Developments of social industry rise from the rubble of institutional distortion. Where’s the i? Place becomes space for work, learning, entertainment, performance, and studio, in addition to test.

A simple generative case is to prefix tags by the world “mobile”. For example, a mobile social mind map may be a topology of location-based ideas. Mobile web sites, social browsers and p2p become self-assembling talents that can meet challenges in realtime. If the web was like a database that made organizations smarter, then mobile is a counterpoint for a work-on-demand goto-grid. Comms reduce the need for travel. Implants disappear the devices. Software radio is no longer in sight.

Browse this domain for developments that expand the xy axis. Markup and scripting provide easy customization. Mesh dashboards meter distributed databases. Pictures are parsed to extract numbers and text, count objects and list scenic metadata. Search permeates the web/world barrier. Answers are always in hand. Carrying a truth detector puts one in mode of integrating intentions in addition to behaviors. Biometrics make diagnosis and prescription relevant to living outside the clinic. Similarly for security watchdogs seeking outlaw autopilots beyond airports. The phone is good for decoding, network switching, software development, project management, and scientific instrumentation.

As a broad brush, immediate phases build out the context via plug ins for calculation, office, web, 2.0, semantic, sensor, ebooks, media, translation, navigation, lifestream, augmented reality, virtualization, mining and mcommerce. Measurement is constructive.