Monday, December 22, 2003

Philosophy break.  Shouldn't McLuhan's Global Village be ammended to Global Villages?   Global information and social technology are not bringing us together into a single global mind, rather many global minds.  Minds connected without reference to geography, time, social class, ethnicity, or race.  Just ideas.  Connect with the ideas, and you join with the village. Perhaps this is a necessary evolutionary step to determine which global mind will assume predominance or these villages learn to work together (this is especially relevant given the potential of a Singularity in what many estimate to be 37 years and counting down). 3:57:59 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Reuters.  Verizon selects Corning as primary fiber supplier for its massive fiber to the home roll-out.  Verizon said Monday that its initial deployment plans involve about 1 million homes next year, with the pace potentially doubling in 2005.  This is starting to look real.  As cable companies and VoIP vendors begin to attack Verizon's core market, it needs to expand into other areas.  Fiber will allow it to go to the moon in terms of the services that it could provide.  It could also destroy the cable television business as channels go ala carte direct to consumers (all Verizon would need to do is step out of the way).  Microsoft should pay some of these costs, since this is so in their sweet spot. 2:03:01 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

AJ.  Interesting link between the Bali bombing and the bridge bomb attack on Musharraf. 7:48:26 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Randy asked me to deliniate some of the features I would like to see in my syndication feeds/services.  I have expanded and clarified this in an essay: Synthetic RSS Feeds 7:45:43 AM    Comment_ Trackback []