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Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will fail?
Great find. A blog discovered an infamous Newsweek article [dating back to 1995] about the Internet "isn't, and will never be, nirvana".
Author Clifford Stoll wrote:The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
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Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
[via Three Word Chant!]
Microsoft shows off tablet computer
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off a new tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard during his CES keynote recently. The HP Slate has multitouch capability and can do some gaming. "Tablet-style computers that run Windows have been available for a decade, but HP's machine is bound to draw extra attention, thanks to expectations that Apple will launch a similar device this month," NZ Herald News wrote. The slate --one-piece portable computer without a physical keyboard-- will be available "later this year."
[images via Gizmodo]
Lenovo combines laptop with tablet
Thinking about a tablet computer instead of a laptop? Lenovo is offering both at the same time. They will be using the Consumer Electronics Show this week to announce the IdeaPad U1. According to WSJ, the unusual hybrid product can function as a conventional clamshell-style laptop, or detach the 11.6-inch screen and use it like a tablet. Interesting!
What?! $75 tablet computer?
YOU MAY START TO WISH YOU WERE a third-grade child in Burundi, since you will have a chance to enjoy this future computer. Designer Yves
Behar shares images of the the world's cheapest PC and the upgrade version of so-called XO computer --previously known as the "$100 Laptop" or "Children's Machine". As we know, this is part of One Laptop Per Child, MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's non-profit effort.
That revamped machine, known as the XO-3 and targeted for release in 2012, is still more of a pipe dream than a product. But early designs for the PC reveal a minimalist slate of touch-powered electronics that drops practically every feature of a traditional computer except its 8.5-by-11-inch screen, a scheme that would shed all of the first XO's child-like clunkiness without losing its simple accessibility.The non-profit organization's mission
is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."
How hard to be the futurists
Futurists, or futurologists, are those who speculate about the future. I discovered some famous quotes on computer evolution; it shows that how difficult to imagine about the future of computer.
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics (1949) "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Business executive arguing against the PC (1977) "640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, referring to computer memory (1981)
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