News.com has a story about a company that wants to bring ‘minority report’ like interfaces to each desktop. Â “The mouse has had a good run but its time to say good-bye,” said Underkoffler. His company has an operating system,…
Culture or politics or stupidity
I am still trying to understand — no I am not angry because this whole thing about Shilpa and Richard Gere is beyond anger and comical — what is the motivation behind these things. Why would people get upset about…
3-D Fax
Long time ago — at least in terms of one’s life time — when I was at University of Michigan in 1990, we started dreaming about 3-D Fax technology. Something like the transporter in StarTrek. That dream did result in…
Ignorance of Crowds
In the last few years, people have been talking about Wisdom of Crowds. It is nice to see that finally somebody has started warning about it — somebody has decided to say that the Emperor has no clothes. New.com reports…
Is this bitterness or real belief
New.com has published an interview of Larry Sanger — co-founder of Wikipedia. Larry Sanger has now taken on a new project (company) called Citizendium. Clearly Citizendium moves away from the ‘wisdom of crowds’ whis is the basis of Wikipedia. It…