Mankind continues to shape the world. (e)valuations of these shapes
fascinates me. I hope some of these links inspire Evaluations about the
Eworld (ElectronicWorld) we networking people help create and in turn the larger world we
all live in and the world our children will inherit.
How to improve things Hints on finding things that actually work and small costs - very insightful and all in non-profits and public services should watch.
I welcome any comments about content: brando at linux dot com
This 'Call Me' icon is my testing of Google Voice - Please give it a try and hopefully we shall both learn. Thank you. (You should just leave a voice mail as it should go directly to my voice mail account.)
IBM PC history, Ted Nelson - hypertext |
Kahn and Cerf - tcp/ip |
VLSI - you need the HW to run the SW - Lynn Conway and Carver Mead |
founding father - beginning of the Internet | Marty Goetz broke IBM monopoly and helped seperate HW and SW? | NetFuture is about technology and responsibility. | World Clock just for fun and partially demonstrates power of internet communications. Don't waste your computing power -put it to use-Boinc. And now
Open Source Paradigm Shift and Web 2.0 along with small pieces and now cell phones replace laptops?
Genetic knowledge and manipulation has been dramatically accelerated because of The Net, so consider the
new Biotechnology. Then listen to J. Craig Venter talk about his latest book
A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life (sequenced the first human genome in 2001).
Read about golden rice hoax
to get some perspective on global corporations. Now you can use the new power of The Net and do some of your own
research. Especially good are How not to do
Science and Grains of
Delusion and this update.
Humor usually helps JOHO and
it may give you insights! Dilbert
another insightful place?
Linux, Open Source, XML and ultimately, the future of the Web. XML
itself might not make sense to anyone without this greater context in
which open standards and open source have emerged. Tim O'Reilly Linux
Tokyo
You need to understand the differences between circuit switched (The
Public Network) and packet switched (TCP/IP and the Internet). Read the
next 4 links, and you'll better understand how what you build today
will effect the future. The Stupid Network
voice data convergence The Rest of the
Story his favorite quotes are great. Founding
Father of the Internet Saving
the Soul of the Internet. Consider 3 public 'networks' - Water,
Electricity, Telephone. One is so cheap, you have no idea what it costs
(and after you use it there is an entire network to take away and treat
the waste). The next is so cheap that we have to advertise to ask you
to use less. And don't forget to consider this
Paradox of the best Network.
With local telephone and cableTV monopolies, that seems to leave
radio as a hope for inexpensive/reasonable broadband internet access.
But alas, this is also a monopoly (oh, is that why an AM radio from 50
years ago still works the same way - did you really think this was the
ONE electronic invention that had no room for improvement?). Well, here
is a couple of places to keep an eye on. New Community Networks
| Wireless
Freenets