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Current Topic: High Tech Developments

Book-Binding Technique Could Revive Rare Texts
Topic: High Tech Developments 2:26 am EST, Jan 13, 2004

A California inventor has developed a book-binding machine that makes it cheap and easy to print professional-quality books within minutes. Industry analysts say the device could make it possible for consumers to purchase previously hard-to-find texts at most bookstores.

Brewster Kahle likes it.

In a few years, the term "bookstore" may refer to one of those little kiosks in the mall, where today they sell incense, neckties, cheap jewelry, and what-not. It will consist of a keyboard, a plasma display, and a small box resembling an inkjet printer.

One could envision using this flexible technology to sell 'scalable' books. If the 1,181 page version of "The Codebreakers" is too much detail for you, perhaps you'd prefer the 500 page version, or the 250 page version with a focus on pre-20th century technology.

Interested in the latest Harry Potter book? Choose anywhere from 100 to 1,000 pages in length, depending on how much time you have to spend. Buying it for the kids, and want to delete the dark parts of the story? Easy.

How about a version of the LOTR trilogy without all of the poetry and the songs? Done. Care to drop the pages-long descriptions of minutia unrelated to the plot, too? Done. Illustrated, or text only?

Music retail outlets could do this today with audio CDs; it's not clear why they don't. There is simply no good reason why you should ever walk out of Tower Records empty handed because the clerk said, "we don't have that in stock, but we could order it for you and have it here in seven to ten business days."

A good-sized Tower Records has on the order of $1 million in inventory on hand. For a million dollars, the store could buy more than a petabyte of online disk storage, on which they could store more than two million different full length albums in CD quality (not MPEG encoded), along with high quality cover art and liner notes. By comparison, online music services like iTunes and Rhapsody offer only 30,000 to 40,000 different CDs.

Book-Binding Technique Could Revive Rare Texts


Voice Analysis Eyeglasses
Topic: High Tech Developments 2:42 pm EST, Jan 10, 2004

From a Washington Post report on CES:

One little gadget debuting at CES claims to put truth detection voice analysis on the bridge of your nose.

"Voice Analysis Eyeglasses" provide real-time analysis on the inside of the lenses about whoever is talking at the time, says its maker, the Israeli company Nemesysco, which developed the technology for counterterrorism and government customers.

"A chip inside the glasses is able to read the voice frequency of the person you are talking to," said Beata Gutman, a spokeswoman for the company. "The voice is analyzed through that chip and there are lights that indicate whether the person is lying."

She said the truth specs were expected to be available at the end of January for $400-$500.


Sensor nets top R&D list for Homeland Security agency
Topic: High Tech Developments 6:44 pm EST, Jan  1, 2004

In one of his first interviews to date, the director of HSARPA shared his priorities and plans, many of which focus on quickly developing a suite of next-generation sensor networks to help detect and respond to biological, chemical or nuclear attacks.

One of HSARPA's top priorities is developing a class of sensor networks ... a call netted some 518 white papers, now under evaluation.

HSARPA may also play a role in helping "socialize" a broad array of sensor technologies where privacy is a concern.

Sensor nets top R&D list for Homeland Security agency


Heavyweights Are Choosing Sides in Battle Over Next DVD Format
Topic: High Tech Developments 10:56 am EST, Dec 29, 2003

The world's largest electronics, computer and entertainment companies are embroiled in a multibillion-dollar fight over whose technology will become an industry standard.

... an effort by [Japanese, Korean, and European] electronics makers to prevent emerging Chinese rivals from making inroads ...

"This is a very intense conflict over intellectual property ..."

Avi Rubin: "Everyone is a loser."

"Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice
Just got my new weapon, the weapon of choice

...

You can go with this,
Or you can go with that,

...

Be careful, we don't know them
Be careful, we don't know them
Be careful, we don't know them"

Watch the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice", featuring Christopher Walken, at

http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/

Heavyweights Are Choosing Sides in Battle Over Next DVD Format


Goodbye, Good Jobs
Topic: High Tech Developments 9:59 am EST, Dec 29, 2003

... high-paying jobs filled by cheap foreign labor.

Think of the long-term consequences.

What will America be like 50 years from now?

Will we be a nation of service providers and salespeople who pitch only foreign products to each other?

Surely a nation where all of our goods are 10 percent cheaper is not superior to a nation in which most of the population is gainfully employed.

This is a letter in response to the "Bracing for the Blow" article from a few days ago.

Asking questions, but still missing the point.

Goodbye, Good Jobs


Big Intrusions, Tiny Pictures and Patented Problems
Topic: High Tech Developments 9:18 am EST, Dec 28, 2003

This is the year the Internet officially stopped being fun.

Is there really no room left for creativity in the computer business?

The innovation that drives the computing and electronics industries is directly threatened by the continued expansion and abuse of the patent and copyright laws.

... under the DMCA, no developer or consumer can be safe. Is that the future we want to live in?

This article is one of those annual retrospectives that might actually be informative if you've been at Gitmo for the last year, but the author does reiterate a few points worth noting.

Big Intrusions, Tiny Pictures and Patented Problems


Bracing for the Blow
Topic: High Tech Developments 9:51 am EST, Dec 26, 2003

The workers whose jobs are now threatened at IBM and similar companies across the US are well educated and absolute whizzes at processing information. But they are nevertheless in danger of following the well-trodden path of their factory brethren to lower-wage work, or the unemployment line.

Most workers are clueless as to what they can do about it ... and have little protection against the powerful forces of the global economy.

Bracing for the Blow


Going Deeper than Google
Topic: High Tech Developments 9:46 am EST, Dec 17, 2003

Grokker takes the data culled by an online search and organizes it visually into categories that enable you to quickly dig deeply to find the exact site or information you need. The application that works on top of many different databases, including the all-important Google.

This really could be the future for finding information.

When you use Grokker you realize just how brain dead even the best search tools are today.

Soon you will also be able to use it in conjunction with social networks like Linkedin.

Grokker gives you an easy way to delve in to a data set, and it often leads to info-revelations.

Going Deeper than Google


Internet Governance
Topic: High Tech Developments 3:10 am EST, Dec 13, 2003

Consider the three preceding log entries in the context of Internet governance. Rinse and repeat.


Selling the Ether [PDF]
Topic: High Tech Developments 1:25 am EST, Dec  5, 2003

Despite frequent press references to our "crowded radio waves," most of the valuable frequencies are barely used.

It is no anomaly that federal rules keep 67 television channels in reserve for Springfield, Mass., a city with just three TV stations on the air. Were competitors free to offer any non-interfering wireless service, via any business model at any frequency, the productivity gains would be enormous. Perhaps most important are the creative applications yet unknown.

While flexibility was endorsed [by the FCC] in theory, plans to extend flexible rights to licensees were largely set aside.

Get. Out. Of. The. Way.

(Don't miss out on the priceless comment about the "gimpy antelope.")

Selling the Ether [PDF]


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