We live in a world where anyone from anywhere using any device can communicate with anyone in any format instantly. Music, cinema, news, broadcast journalism – there are no sacred cows any more - or so my learned colleagues would have you believe. While other departments take you to the brave new world each month, here we will ask fundamental questions about making the rubber meet the road. Sometimes fun, sometimes painfully mundane, sometimes provocatively off the wall, we will explore the teleology of technology – the art and science of the purpose behind technological advances that keep this industry’s wheels turning, and the bytes flowing through the proverbial pipes.
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Contrary to popular opinion, technology does not always follow a purposeful path of evolution. Spectacularly successful inventions have often been solutions in search of a problem. UNIX on the other hand is a case all by itself.
Mon, Nov 03, 2008
While everyone raves about the digital economy, a very complex layer of plumbing just under the surface makes it all work. In the first of a series, we peel back a few layers of the onion.
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