Sunday
May202007
Mind Expanding Weekend
Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 11:50PM
My previous post mentioned the "Singularity" with reference to Ray Kurzweils famous book in passing.
I recently subscribed to the excellent "Technology Evangelist" podcast, primarily because it's one of the few podcasts that pushes out excellent material in HD and looks amazing on my Apple TV.
Imagine my surprise a few days after my earlier posting when they published a full keynote from Ray Kurzweil from the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I finally got around to watching the full keynote and was blown away if not a little apprehensive of just what the future has in store for us! I really recommend you watch the video.
Then I stumbled upon this post by Alan Moore all about the impact that the iPhone is likely to have
Pretty stirring stuff indeed!
The future looks bright (but not necessarily Orange)!
I recently subscribed to the excellent "Technology Evangelist" podcast, primarily because it's one of the few podcasts that pushes out excellent material in HD and looks amazing on my Apple TV.
Imagine my surprise a few days after my earlier posting when they published a full keynote from Ray Kurzweil from the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ray gave the evening Keynote speech. We were fortunate enough to have two HD cameras at the conference and grabbed the entire keynote with house audio. Whereas we would normally cut this 80 minute presentation into a 10 to 15 minute chunk, Ray's material was so good, so inspiring that we have decided to leave it complete. If you're an Apple TV user, this is a great bit to watch in full 720p. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did.
I finally got around to watching the full keynote and was blown away if not a little apprehensive of just what the future has in store for us! I really recommend you watch the video.
Then I stumbled upon this post by Alan Moore all about the impact that the iPhone is likely to have
Ever since my January keynote on handset design at the big annual 3G event in Tokyo I've mentioned the iPhone in every public presentation. And almost every time I've made the point that June 2007 marks a watershed moment in time. Much like the Western calendar marks time from before and after Jesus Christ, and how the computer world changed totally by the Macintosh - remembering that Windows is Microsoft's copy of the Mac operating system - I am certain that the mobile telecoms world will count its time in two Eras. The Era BI: time Before the iPhone, and the ERA AI: time After the iPhone.
What will change? Pretty much everything. And funnily enough, most of it is not actually caused by the iPhone, they only happen to occur so closely to the iPhone, that the iPhone will be given much of the credit.
Pretty stirring stuff indeed!
The future looks bright (but not necessarily Orange)!
Reader Comments (1)
I have no network loyalty - I'll go wherever the iPhone does (but probably not until the 2nd generation of the device).