Future missive from your own past self

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The Look Of The Future Past

The Look Of The Future Past 02/11/2004 12:18 PM
Sure, it isn’t a peek at what has got to be the most intriguing offering to come down the old Hasbro pike, but the image above does shed a little light on the direction the toymakers are going with the new The Original Trilogy line. Coming from a very reliable source, this logo is almost certainly the real deal (though it may only be used for promotion), and with the truly vintage feel it has, there is little doubt the figures that will come in this series will be just as cool…

The future in the web's past

The future in the web's past 06/24/2004 01:30 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Jun 22, 12:35 pm GMT

Tales Of Future Past

Tales Of Future Past 05/25/2004 07:16 PM
Here's an interesting review that covers tales of future past -- a website dedicated to collecting images of distant worlds and futures, as predicted by old magazines and science fiction. And there's also RetroFuture to help you remember flying cars and smell-o-vision. Ah, yes, remember when computers were predicted to beat us all at chess? Oh wait.

The future and past of journalism

The future and past of journalism 06/05/2005 11:34 PM
Scott Rosenberg has written a very nice essay on the future of journalism in the age when anyone can publish. He has caught the moment that we stand in well, with the old media monopolies dying but not dead, and the new media struggling to be born, but not clear what it will be born as. He captures well a phenomenon that experienced in my teens and will never forget, the experience of having someone report on something you know well, and discovering how flawed and human supposedly authoritative institutions like major newspapers are. In my case, I was living in Niger in West Africa, and I once met the Washington Post journalist who was responsible for covering the entire continent of Africa (which is by itself an amazing fact). He spent 5 days in the country and then left, not to return again for a year or so, and on the basis of those 5 days wrote 5 or so articles on events and trends in Niger, each of which contained things stated as facts that I thought were patently false. It was a good learning experience for a future political activist. I suspect that, in spite of the many reasons why the existing institutions and practicioners of journalism should be able to see the writing on the wall, we are entering another period of Schumpeterian Creative Destruction. I also suspect that what arises from the ashes that we will recognize as journalism will arise from the mix of new sources like blogs, group blogs, indymedia, PLOS, Kuroshin, etc. not from the transformation of existing institutions....

Intel looks to the future--and the past

Intel looks to the future--and the past 04/14/2005 09:47 PM
CNET News.com Apr 15 2005 1:09AM GMT

Tales of the Future Past

Tales of the Future Past 05/28/2004 03:24 PM

SVG's Past and Promising Future

SVG's Past and Promising Future 12/04/2002 08:22 PM
In this month's SVG column, Antoine Quint looks back at SVG's journey through 2002 and looks forward to 2003.

Discounting IT's past while writing off
its future

Discounting IT's past while writing off
its future 05/02/2004 01:47 AM
Boston Globe May 2 2004 5:02AM GMT

Preparing For The Future... Or Just
Clinging To The Past?

Preparing For The Future... Or Just
Clinging To The Past? 03/31/2005 02:52 PM
It's completely natural for companies in changing marketplaces to look for ways to protect their existing cash cows -- but it makes for a dangerous long term strategy. Here's another example from the newspaper industry. While not everyone agrees that newsp rint is going away, all of the talk about putti ng up pay walls for the online versions of newspapers or keepin g certain content only in the print edition is all about trying to artificially boost the appeal of the paper version in relation to the digital version. That's backwards. As new studies are showing, many in the younger generation of today won't take a newsprint subscription even if it's free. Not only do they not find it an efficient way to get and read the news, they get upset at the growing pile of newsprint in their homes. It makes them feel guilty for not reading it. It's a psychological barrier that free subscriptions and exclusive content will never get over. Instead, news organizations should be working on ways to better attract users to their digital editions, which means providing them what they want -- not making it harder for them to get what they want.

The Industrial Revolution, past and
future

The Industrial Revolution, past and
future 06/13/2004 06:16 PM
The Industrial Revolution, past and future:

The entire human race is getting rich, at historically unprecedented rates. The economic miracles of East Asia are, of course, atypical in their magnitudes, but economic growth is not the exception in the world today: It is the rule.

Nobel Prize winner Robert Lucas discusses wealth redistribution and the world economy.

Exhibiting The House Of The Future From
The Past

Exhibiting The House Of The Future From
The Past 12/30/2004 07:55 PM
Now that we're in predictions season, everyone knows that people will be able to look back and laugh at many of the "long term" predictions that people make, but sometimes people like to go back and commemorate the missed predictions. Apparently, MIT is looking to set up an exhibit in a few years looking at the house of the future that they helped design in 1957. The finished prototype was eventually displayed at Disneyland for a decade, where it was supposed to represent a house in 1987. Of course, most houses in 1987 look fairly similar to houses from 1957, but it still must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Either way, there is something amusing about setting up a "historical" exhibit looking at a "house of the future" when that future, which never actually made it, was supposed to occur years ago.

Telecom future to look a lot like the
past - study

Telecom future to look a lot like the
past - study 06/14/2004 06:03 PM
Lumbering dinos hold all the VoIP chips

COMMENT: Should computing past pave the
way for the future?

COMMENT: Should computing past pave the
way for the future? 01/02/2005 01:57 PM
All About Symbian Jan 2 2005 2:43PM GMT

The Future of Free Software Lies in The
Past

The Future of Free Software Lies in The
Past 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Free Software Foundation lawyer Eben Moglen wants to wipe out what he calls the 'scourge' of proprietary software.

Companies Browse the Past to Plan Their
Future

Companies Browse the Past to Plan Their
Future 05/21/2004 05:41 AM
Companies Browse the Past to Plan Their Future
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040509/BUSINESS06/405090320

As managing director of consumer products consulting firm NewProductWorks -- and custodian of "the collection" -- Marilyn Raymond is the keeper of the keys to a vast trove of consumer marketing knowledge that inspires pilgrimages by consumer products manufacturers eager to plumb the past for tomorrow's next great idea. The private collection is an extraordinary assortment of every new consumer food or health and beauty aid product introduced in North America since the early 1970s. With its 80,000 items housed in a former Ferrari dealership in Ann Arbor, Mich., the collection is a 30-year history of American business marketing ingenuity, providing evidence of both brilliant marketing ideas and spectacular flops. Remember Downeyflake's Toaster Eggs, or Gerber baby food for adults? Giants like Procter & Gamble and tiny mom-and-pop inventors all journey to Ann Arbor to view the collection, pick through it for ideas, investigate possible patent infringement, and aid their product research and development. Although the consulting firm can't predict whether a new product will work, it can provide examples of similar past products and explain why they succeeded or failed. "Ninety percent of it is timing," Raymond says. Plus, companies have to understand the American consumer psyche, she adds. For example, one failed product, Fish Nuggets, was marketed in round ice cream-type cartons. Consumers just couldn't stomach the fish and ice cream connection.

In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to
Future Ones

In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to
Future Ones 01/04/2005 04:54 AM
Undersea quakes are inevitable. The questions are where and when — and the recent catastrophe may provide clues.

Future of Illinois Farm May Lie in
Swampy Past

Future of Illinois Farm May Lie in
Swampy Past 09/27/2004 03:36 AM
Environmentalists say they can return a 7,000-acre farm to its natural state as a thriving wetland by allowing it to flood.

The Past, Present and Future of Web
Services, part 1

The Past, Present and Future of Web
Services, part 1 09/30/2002 01:53 PM
Web services are somewhere around the crest of their hype cycle and currently the darling of the prevalent media. This cresting is like that of other technologies in that it precedes full development and maturity. Web services, an undoubtedly important technology regardless of media interest, have a good deal of development ahead of them. Those who find success using Web services will be those who understand the technology fundamentally: its motivations, the reasons why some components are winning out over others, and the likely course of maturity.

For this reason, I start with the history of Web services. This is no mere nostalgic side-trip: the business and technical environment into which Web services was conceived, and the various players that have waxed and waned in prominence in their history to date are likely to have a strong effect on the future of Web services. You can already see this happening with developments such as the emerging role of Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) as incubator of security, workflow and transaction standards for Web services. OASIS was once seen as the very opposition to mainstream Web services. -- Uche Ogbuji

"zeldman.dogs"

Go Digital How far do past visions of
the future match the present?

Go Digital How far do past visions of
the future match the present? 04/12/2004 11:37 AM
BBC Apr 12 2004 3:46PM GMT

Symbian founder on mobile past, present
and future

Symbian founder on mobile past, present
and future 07/21/2004 01:11 PM
Exclusive Why Skype's a chimera and why the iPod is great

China's Past Offers No Guarantee of
Future Returns

China's Past Offers No Guarantee of
Future Returns 02/11/2004 07:54 AM
TheStreet.com Feb 11 2004 12:32PM GMT

Go Digital: 1500 GMT / 160 BST How far
do past visions of the future match the
present?

Go Digital: 1500 GMT / 160 BST How far
do past visions of the future match the
present? 04/12/2004 07:37 AM
BBC Apr 12 2004 11:56AM GMT

Macworld Expo in Boston: Past, Present,
and Future (19-Jul-2004; 4.5K)

Macworld Expo in Boston: Past, Present,
and Future (19-Jul-2004; 4.5K) 07/19/2004 08:28 PM

Lessig on latest missive from Cato

Lessig on latest missive from Cato 01/22/2004 03:04 AM

Larry Lessig comments on Adam Thierer's latest missive from Cato.

The danger of the past was that men
became slaves. The danger of the future
is that men may become robots. -- Erich
Fromm

The danger of the past was that men
became slaves. The danger of the future
is that men may become robots. -- Erich
Fromm 11/05/2003 10:53 AM
The History of Robots in the Victorian Era

Out of the past

Out of the past 09/21/2004 08:50 AM
I'm bored with my husband and son in New England. Should I go back to my passionate lover in L.A.?

Voices from the past

Voices from the past 07/26/2004 09:12 PM
Getting back into the groove : In the corner of a California university laboratory, two men are battling against time to perfect a machine that will read old recordings - using special microscopes to scan the grooves - and software that can convert those shapes into sound. Their work could bring history to life.

A Jolt from the Past

A Jolt from the Past 06/18/2004 05:04 AM
Don't let a lack of energy gum up the works. Jolt's caffeinated gum can help you chew more than you bite off.

Colors of the Past

Colors of the Past 12/27/2004 08:00 PM
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took three b&w photos of his subjects using red, green, and blue filters. Now, they've been digitally composited, and we have stunning , authentic color photographs of Russia in the early 1900's.

Picturing the Past

Picturing the Past 12/07/2003 06:22 PM
Under the City Sky, an exhibit of 8600 or more photographs of Helsinki taken between 1969 and 1987 by...

a blast from the past

a blast from the past 12/28/2004 05:29 PM
Miss Abigail's Time Warp "old advice for contemporary dilemmas"...

Past Midsummer

Past Midsummer 06/27/2004 02:27 PM
Ate too much meat, drank too much alcohol, and met an surprisingly large number of interesting people. (Thanks to everyone - especially all the beautiful maidens on Friday - and apologies for being so subdued most of the time. I really did enjoy myself, even if I didn't always look the part. :)

I have the most distressing possible week coming up I can think of (barring accidents). Why is work always so hectic around this time of the year?

Perhaps I need a walkabout. Something in me wants to just go.

Digging Up the Past at 45 R.P.M.

Digging Up the Past at 45 R.P.M. 05/19/2004 06:04 PM
Downloading digital music turns out to be a route into the realm of memory.

Smallpox From The Past

Smallpox From The Past 12/27/2003 02:57 PM
An anonymous reader submits "Earlier this year, librarian Susanne Caro was looking through an 1888 book on United States Civil War medicine and discovered a ...

Getting a Date in the Past

Getting a Date in the Past 06/29/2004 05:07 PM

The Ghost of Halloween Past

The Ghost of Halloween Past 11/03/2003 04:48 PM
An old picture I dug up of me as a witch for a Halloween long, long ago. My sister...

River Past Talkative v3.0.0

River Past Talkative v3.0.0 04/28/2004 05:24 PM
River Past Talkative is a easy-to-use text-to-speech software. Speaks text or record to MP3, WAV, OGG Vorbis, or WMA audio.It uses a text editor interface for the ease of use. Support plain text and RTF files, or copy text from clipboard. Full control over voice, speaking speed, volume, audio codec, sample rate, channel, bits per sample, and bitrate.Useful for proofreading, or use it to listen to news, emails, articles and web pages. [Shareware $24.95 1.56 MB]

The Promise of Olympics Past

The Promise of Olympics Past 02/21/2003 02:40 PM
The BBC lost a few points, though, with sometimes hard-to-find front-page links and a story about Web sites sans links, which meant I had to google for Sven ...

Placing a call to the past

Placing a call to the past 09/26/2004 09:16 AM
Chicago Tribune Sep 26 2004 12:20PM GMT
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