Comments on: Techno-culture Game Changers in 2010

By: twalkernh

twalkernh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:07:26 +0000

Ummmmmmm.
Might be a good time to buy shares of Apple.
Look what it did for Forest!

By: E. Christopher Clark

E. Christopher Clark — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:27:28 +0000

I think spyboy’s points on #4 are valid and well articulated. And, while I’m not personally interested in augmented reality at all, I am interested to see what happens with all of these things.

By: dr.hypercube

dr.hypercube — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:46:51 +0000

Big agreement on #1 – but the lifespan of holding a cell phone at arms length to see the AR overlay will be, I hope, short.

Something I’ve been thinking on – we’ve had (are having) a hard time inventing cell phone etiquette. What’s going to happen when my experience of the world (the JP overlay) doesn’t look anything like yours (the JH overlay)? At least both will show local hot dog resources *grin*.

By: spyboy

spyboy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:40:25 +0000

I don’t like #4.

What if the internet is down? What if Google (or whoever) has a system crash? What if someone wants to snoop files? What if the cloud hosting company decides to outsource it’s data center to a foreign country, and later that country is no longer a “friend” of the US? Or how do you know that outsourced center is actually secure from hackers?

People need to understand that if their data is not residing locally, they don’t have 100% control over it. Especially for businesses (trade secrets).