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Mobile, 5 Years in the future

3 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published by vanevery September 21st, 2008 in Development, Electronics, Gadgets, Hardware, In-Depth, Open Source, Streaming and Multi-Media, future, telephony, thoughts

I was just interviewed for an upcoming book and one of the questions was:
Fast forward 5 years into the future, can you paint me picture of the mobile world?
Here is what I said:
I am going to beg out of this one and instead paint a picture of my utopia.
My mobile utopia 5 years from now: [...]

Television 2.0 - What is it, is it already here and what does that mean?

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published by vanevery February 8th, 2006 in In-Depth

I doubt that anyone reading this doesn’t believe that television, every aspect of it from in-studio production to distribution is either on it’s last legs or going through a major transition but humor me while I make the case and describe what I think is to come.
Among several interrelated activities, I teach a class at [...]

CES Wrap-up

3 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published by vanevery January 17th, 2006 in Electronics, Events, Gadgets, In-Depth

Two weeks ago, I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Here is a quick write-up regarding it:
CES, the Consumer Electronics Show was a very interesting and overwhelming event. First of all, it is by far the largest event that I have ever been to. The numbers were 150,000 plus attendees and [...]

Future of Television Conference

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published by vanevery December 9th, 2005 in Business, By-Pass The Media, Copyright, Electronics, Entertainment, Events, Film, Gadgets, In-Depth, Networking, New York City, Political, Social Networking, Streaming and Multi-Media, The Media

Beyond TV: TVSpy.com Next Generation TV
So, I went to the Future of Television conference a couple of weeks ago and was somewhat suprised. Last year, I poked my head in to see what was being discussed and it was a big snooze. After checking out the website, I figured it was worth my [...]

Hillary support’s The INDUCE Act

1 Comment Bookmark on del.icio.us Published by vanevery December 6th, 2004 in Art, Business, Civil Rights, Copyright, Development, Electronics, Entertainment, Gadgets, General Comments, Hardware, In-Depth, Networking, New York City, Open Source, Political, Related to this Site, School, Software, The Media

I was dismayed to learn that Senator Hillary Clinton has come out and in fact co-sponsored Senator Hatch’s Induce Act. What follows is a draft of a letter that I am writing to Sen. Clinton to express my concern. I hope that others will do the same.
Here is some background material:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2560:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64315,00.html
http://techlawadvisor.com/induce/
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004563.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040618-3906.html
http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/INDUCEanalysis.cfm
http://action.eff.org/site/pp.asp?c=esJNJ5OWF&b=164928
Like your iPod, [...]

What happened to my book?

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published by vanevery January 25th, 2004 in In-Depth

Salon.com Technology | Blowing up “The Anarchist Cookbook”
I used to have a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook but can no longer find it. Hmmmn.. Not too long ago I decided to see if it was still in print and available, in the process I found William Powell’s comments/letter on the Author’s comments section [...]