The World is Flat....again!
Wednesday, 30th April, 2008
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Just when you thought you earned bragging rights by installing video monitors
in your SUV or on a bigger scale, your fleet of Airbus A380s.....They're obsolete!
"TIRED of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? It may become worse. Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too, as they project them onto nearby walls or commuter-train seatbacks...The company is also building a projector engine to be placed inside cellphones. “We need to reduce the power consumption” of the module, he said. “A stand-alone projector can have its own battery, but modules integrated into a mobile phone use the phone’s battery,” limiting the amount of power than can be drawn, he said..."
Fuel cells + epaper + ultra broadband connectivity... get ready!
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diagonal thoughts (on a Flat Plane) Some notes on seeing and being, sound and image, media and memory
Music like Water... an excerpt....Read the blog by Fred Wilson
...The music industry is rapidly undergoing a process of “Creative Destruction“, a process that might eventually lead to an abundant, open and transparant free music business where all the music is available to everyone and discoverable via search and social discovery. What matters now, in the words of Gerd Leonard, is that “the music industry is in the throngs of this powerful shift from ‘having distribution’ as a gatekeeper to ‘having people’s attention’ as the holy grail. It boggles the mind, but it is now no longer relevant (or shall we say… sufficient) to have distribution, i.e. to have a replication facility, a retail network, reserved shelf space at the point-of-sale, or frequency slots (if you are radio company), or a satellite in orbit, or a cable network – what really matters is how many people care about what’s IN your network!”
The original David Bowie quote on "Music Like Water"
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