Thu 5 Jun 2008
DARPA does awesome awesome stuff. Now they are funding the devlopment of a computer that will manage the battlefields of the future. This combined with advances in the area of what can only be called cybernetics not to mention laser weapons is an amazing portrait of the future. There are two problems I see arising from this: 1.) There aren’t that many people left on the planet dumb enough to engage in global war. 2.) What the hell are sci-fi authors going to write about?
Tue 11 Dec 2007
The other day the following comic from XKCD struck me as amusing:
It also made me think, the last gift I got my mother was a robot. I bought my mother a roomba and now she has a robot roaming free in her home. I may be working with a team designing a robotic soccer team. My friends mother was buying digital picture frames for her parents. We live in a science fiction world and NO ONE NOTICED. We all carry communicators. I am laying in bed typing this on a machine about 10000 times more powerful than what sent men to the moon. If the allies had this computer during WWII Hitler would have been dead,,,, crap godwins law.
Wed 5 Dec 2007
So Google is pushing their new android platform for mobile devices. I have downloaded the API but I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. If the big G follows the pattern of the past it will probably be pretty easy to work with. I am pleased with this development. I have many reasons ($10,000,000us is not the least of them) one of the biggest is the fact that it is open source. I think having a project that is open to the community of developers is the best way of ensuring a good product. Essentially this gives a good chance that your product will play well with others, an idea shunned by many.
It has always seemed to me that by making your product only work with your other products that you are cutting yourself off from a valuable portion of market share. If you make your product the best, then allow EVERY one to use it than people will love you. If you tell people it’s the best then force them to use it they will resent you. Well actually a lot of people will follow your lead regardless. There will always be the few that are interested in their own way though.