Writing in 1995, Clifford Stoll outlines why he sees no future for the internet, quite simply, it’s all too difficult:
Consider today’s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? [...]

At some point this year mobile phone subscriptions will reach the five billion mark, meaning just (yes, just) 1.8 billion people in the world will be without a mobile handset.
Reaching 4.6 billion at the end of 2009, the number of cell phone subscriptions across the globe will hit 5 billion sometime in 2010, according [...]

Some not especially gallant attempts to make mobile phone towers look like trees or other natural features.
They are meant to blend in with their natural surroundings, yet, as Voit’s eyecatching photos prove, they rarely do. On the other hand, would you want the world’s landscapes pockmarked with mobile phone masts?

The cactus one isn’t too [...]

Jerry Mander’s book “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television” – which was written in 1977 – has been re-published online.
What’s the matter with our modern, technologically based society anyway? Why isn’t it more satisfying? Why do so many of us now feel that some vague something hounds us and diminishes us and makes [...]

Changes in methods of communication, which have become more immediate and direct by way of social media and networks, will increasingly change the way we work, and look for work, with today’s high-school students appearing to be well-equipped to negotiate future working environments.
One of their distinguishing characteristics is their extraordinary ability to multi-task and do [...]

Martin Cooper, lead developer of the Motorola team that built the first mobile phone in 1973, says today’s models are far too complicated.
“Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well,” former Motorola researcher Martin Cooper said at a privacy conference in Madrid.

While I [...]

Did You Know 4.0. While it’s easy to get your message out there, is anyone hearing it?
Convergence is everywhere. It’s easier than ever to reach a large audience, but harder than ever to really connect with it.

Via Drew McLellan.

I’m not sure how feasible the proposal actually is, but imagine having a phone number that was like a URL or website address, one number you could retain permanently and (possibly) use regardless of where you lived.
Cell phones can already input web-style addresses and a firmware upgrade would allow for a new system of [...]

While I may enjoy blogging and running this here blog, I do loathe and detest the actual word blog… it sounds like someone devised the word while – quite literally – in the ablution block.
First of all, I would like to express just how tremendously ugly a word “blog” really is. It reminds me of [...]

Interesting premise, the rise of the internet and even globalisation has not created the global village that many people predicted it would.
At least this is the opinion of two researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, after studying names given to babies since 1995. They found naming trends tended to remain local rather global despite [...]