Emerging Tech: March 2006 Archives

I'm increasingly interested in the role of technology in, well, life. Yes, I know, this is broad, ungainly, and pretentious. I'm convinced that technology as a social platform for replacing the physical is not the correct path. There seem to be so many applications to fulfill too broad a spectrum. Intelligent technology is great, wonderful, in certain ways. Computer-love is like a pandemic—a negative result of the current object zeitgeist. MSNBC just put out an article on some services here, naming a few notable online services that really seem to miss the mark. Conversely, there are a number of projects that seem more conducive to tech-enhanced [as opposed to replaced] life, as in this business app featured in Wired.

We need more applications to find and aggregate content [apps/forums/whatever] and let us break away from the screen. Better yet, mobile devices with all the bells and whistles to enhance the actual. There is an inherent need for embeded, pervasive computing objects in this paradigm [I speak of]. These aren't necessarily [or anything near] networked blogjects, spimes, or the like... But embedded sensors are a possibility in the solution.