technology (7)
Not impressed by high tech evolution? Just read 2007 ten emerging technologies.
And what's new just now?
about Computing
- Super lenses and chips, to see nanometers...
- Intel going on...
about Communication
- Optical fibers ... and the web
- IBM going on...
- and all the mobile stuff, changing potentially your life...
about Storage
- Nanotubes again...
- and flash memory on your desktop
about Man/Machine interfaces
- what about ultramobiles
- some virtual earphones
- Internet names length
- and emoticons...
- and last but not least, if you don't succeed to retrieve information (all those blogs !!!), why not organize your disorder?
About Moore's law, Intel still invest strongly in 45 nanometers technology in competition with AMD, IBM, ...
For the future, why not quantum computers? May be not ready !
..and atom thin graphite to build transistors...
And this fantastic technology, RFID, with all its opportunities and risks, now at 50 micrometer size !
Man/machines interface:
Suppressing the mouse, eye movement driven computer? It's an old dream. I already tried that in an IBM research lab years ago. A bit disorienting, with a funny feeling not to be allowed to look anywhere, and a sort of sea-sick impression. I hope they improved !
... and why not connect your brain directly to games?
...and how much data world wide? and what for? If we cannot absorb more than 1 info/s (short term memory size limitation), compute how many information you will be able to absorb during your all life (3 Billions ?). Multiply by the population (6 Billion?)... It give something at the level of zettabytes, considered by IDC as the level of amount of data stored around 2010...
So we will zap more and more !
About the advances about programming bots (intelligent agents), look at these social bots !
And the other face, risks are always there, hackers and co ...
I like this one:
MIT's Michael Schrage explains why getting highly relevant results from a search can actually inhibit the iterative process by which we discover and learn.
Idea we have about relevance of our search evolves while searching. Creativity can come from that iterative process too:
I search something, I am partially dissatisfied of the result, that makes me refocus on new idea about my search, I search again, ....
So: If you find what you search immediatly, you stop your brain ! Nice philosophical thought.
You can find there nice high level contributions about searching...
Just took this one too:
Jim McGee talks about the need for businesses to allow employees time to think, and the extent to which thinking can be done in the social public of blogs.
About fast thinking, I adore this fast (at the speed of the brain ), intelligent video from Michael Wesch (Kansas State University) about Web2 (but don't like the music, I stopped the sound...)
Some additionnal comment on it....
What's next after still well living silicium ( yes , 45 nanometers...) to go-on on Moore's law?
Photonic computer is one of the opportunities.
Telephone still moving:
Ultramobile is the keyword. McKinsey (just register!) shows an interesting study about value of mobile phones...
Man/machine interface nice evolutions:
- Flexible plastics, flexible screens, even flexible RFIDs. Why not become invisible, with flexible screen as clothing and a camera behind you, reprojecting background image on the screen ....
- Night vision with new LEDs
and... are you lost in translation?
Mais attention: les technologies portent toujours leurs facteurs de risques !
Très bonne synthèse des nouveautés technologiques de ce salon....
No doubt information and communication technologies, as a major media, can create emotions, through messages, chatting, music and video, ...
But can computer software detect and understand your emotions, and answer to them. Are we, after all those years, close enough from "artificial intelligence" ?
A lot of new experiments these days on that, from neural networks to telephones....
All the chatterbots are trying too the same kind of things from basic Cybelle to sophisticated A.L.I.C.E. (why always female as characters for clever intelligence robots ? )
At man/machine interface point of view, in spite of some random pleasant progress (Wii?) is still at prehistorical age, unable for example to really interact easily without a keyboard, language semantic recognition being still far enough...
IT ROI, again, a nice contribution with 3 categories of funding for IT applications
Stimulating article from McKinsey, on the old problem of relation of IT department with silos.
This split inside IT between "IT demand" and "IT supply" is a (non perfect!) solution. That clarifies too the business owner location, treats better alignment challenges...
En France, les notions de Maître d'ouvrage (dans les silos), de Maître d'ouvrage délégué (souvent dans les fonctions informatiques), de Maître d'oeuvre (SI) permettent ce jeu...
Predictions 2007 again:
On Data Management: I like the last paragraph about the difficulties to make the bridge between ERPs and old applications, in an SOA view...
Nice survey on IT spendings, with an emphasis on "worker-friendly" tools (PDA's, Wifi, ...)
Another view of CIO 2007 priorities:
with this significant hit-parade: ITIL, VOIP, CRM, Storage, Web services, BI
Hi Tech by MIT
Evolution of bandwith on optical fiber
Personal technology: from social networks by telephone to advanced uses of Google map
Intéressant article sur la nécessité de "vendeurs consultants" pour toute vente technologique; Ce glissement n'est pas récent, mais touche désormais tout le monde...