http://onlifeininformation.com The past, present, and future of information Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:52:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From ON Magazine, Number 4, 2009 Technology Predictions: Intelligence & Brute Force By Andrew Odlyzko Technology prediction is inherently hard. And it is even harder to predict how society will react to a new product or service. Potential customers may sneer at a new technology, as happened a ... http://onlifeininformation.com/?p=461 From ON Magazine, Number 4, 2009 From Ethernet to Enernet: Bob Metcalfe on Standards, Serendipity, and Stubs Bob Metcalfe has been involved—as a direct catalyst or a prominent observer—in a number of key milestones spanning the evolution of the IT industry: the birth of the Internet, the invention of Ethernet ... http://onlifeininformation.com/?p=453 From ON Magazine, Number 4, 2009 From the Web of Documents to the Web of Data: Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of his Invention In 1989, while a fellow at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Today he is ... http://onlifeininformation.com/?p=447 Google is now officially the evil empire for all other big tech players, as Microsoft used to be. Every day, there is yet another news flash on how someone is standing up to the Big G, with Apple recently leading the charge. As Nick Carr observed, followed by WSJ's ... http://onlifeininformation.com/?p=442 The next entry in ON magazine's Web Timeline stars Katharine Hepburn. "They can't build a machine to do our job; there are too many cross-references in this place," she tells her anxious colleagues in the corporate research department in the film Desk Set (1957). The cause for anxiety is ... http://onlifeininformation.com/?p=439