Posts tagged “emerging technology”

BitTorrent isn't just piracy infrastructure: it's a glimpse of data's future. The "real cloud" is content stored in the network itself, perpetually in transit, owned by no one. This phase-change from liquid to solid data is being held back by legal stigma, but not for long.

The semantic web is a beautiful idea but it's not what's next. APIs are already the center of the web experience, and as they multiply and cross-pollinate, emergent behavior will produce explosive, unpredictable value. Build APIs, build meta-APIs, and for the love of all that is good, don't call it Web 3.0.

I'm excited about plastic transistors and flexible displays - I want a flat-screen t-shirt display. Also cool: the ISS robot arm that walks itself around the station by flipping end-over-end between power sockets. Check Slashdot yourself for anything else.