Category Archives: Predictions
A Very Short History of IT
If you were asked to name the top three events in the history of computer technology (or the history of what came to be known as the IT industry), which ones would you choose? Here’s my very short list: June … Continue reading
The Future of Liabraries (Infographic)
“The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transform Americans’ reading habits. In this changing landscape, public libraries are trying to adjust their services … Continue reading
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In 2013 the internet will become a mostly mobile medium
Source: The Economist, Morgan Stanley
Posted in Internet, Mobile, Predictions, World Wide Web
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Yesterday’s Futures: The Limits of Our Vision
In 1969, the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, U.K., produced a video titled “Telecommunications services for the 1990s.” Predictably, it extrapolates from the reality (no distortion here) of the telephone network of the 1960s. Only the transmission is digital; the rest … Continue reading
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The Future of Mobile
Posted in Infographics, Mobile, Predictions, The InfoStory Quant
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Computers and Health Care
“The development of our information processing industry is basically governed by longer term super-cycles… Analyses of what computational environments will facilitate can be mind-boggling. To offer just one example, health care delivery will be revolutionized by 1990, with most large … Continue reading
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“There You Have Electronic Television”
Today in 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device he called an “image dissector.”
The Paperless Office of the Future, Still
News from IDC today: “Not Dead Yet: Printed Page Volume to Reach 1.2 Trillion in the U.S. by 2015.”
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A Brief History of Computer Graphics and What’s Next
One way to look at the history of computer graphics is to look at eras, giving each era a name. For example, the middle 50′s to the early 60′s was the “beginnings” era. The early 60′s to the late 60′s … Continue reading
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