What Will 2008 Bring? January 1, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos, Net Neutrality, OLPC, Opinion.2 comments
I read an interesting article from the Sydney Morning Herald about 10 technology things that will change your future. Some were expected, like the OLPC project. Twitter received a mention as well as social lending. One I didn’t expect was Chumby. What is Chumby? It looks like a pillow with a computer screen. The article says:
The Chumby is a wireless internet device about the size of a rugby ball. It has no keyboard or mouse but instead uses software called widgets to display pretty much anything you want it to - all the time… And the really interesting thing is that it is designed to be hacked - everything from the software code to the specifications for the case are freely available. No one, including the manufacturers, knows what owners will make Chumbys do once they are released. http://www.chumby.com
What do I think the new year will bring? The trend to smaller, more portable, networked devices will continue, mostly from the cell phone industry, although one hears rumors of new portable devices. I also think that open source will continue to invade the business world. I also think that Net Neutrality will be both more important, and more imperiled. Oh, and of course, something will come along that I didn’t expect, I probably won’t understand, and I’ll dismiss it as an unimportant passing fad, just like I did with Twitter in 2007.
