The Future of Free Software Lies in The Past

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Lies, lies, lies, yeah (part 7592?)

Lies, lies, lies, yeah (part 7592?) 07/20/2004 08:05 AM
We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.
Um, no. No, you haven't.
And USAID, in its report Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves, might want to do some fact-checking too, along with our dear leader as well ("There's mass graves"), and his supporters.

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 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....

Tales of the Future Past

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

Future missive from your own past self

Future missive from your own past self 07/12/2004 10:48 PM
Los Angeles Times Jul 13 2004 3:24AM GMT

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

MCG Releases TakeCharge Software - A
Breakthrough in Software Development
Makes Cash Transactions a Thing of the
Past

MCG Releases TakeCharge Software - A
Breakthrough in Software Development
Makes Cash Transactions a Thing of the
Past 08/12/2004 02:23 AM
TAKECHARGE is a software program that allows large and small merchants to process credit, debit, gift, EBT cards, and electronic checks through their computers. The program has multi-threaded, multi-user, and multi-merchant capabilities, in addition to the ability to automatically process recurring transactions. The software is written in Java and can run across almost all computer operating systems. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

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"

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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

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

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

Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right€”again. By Fred Kaplan

Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right€”again. By Fred Kaplan 09/03/2004 07:55 PM
Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention Speeches - Setting Kerry's record right€”again. By Fred Kaplan

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right—again. By Fred Kaplan

Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention
Speeches - Setting Kerry's record
right—again. By Fred Kaplan 09/03/2004 09:29 PM

Sony Ericsson Z1020: Lies, Damn Lies,
and Photoshop

Sony Ericsson Z1020: Lies, Damn Lies,
and Photoshop 04/26/2004 11:34 AM
It's fake, but loverly: this 'prototype' Sony Ericsson Z1020 was designed only to bind to your brain's gadget receptors, producing a pleasurable but ultimately unfulfilling wave of desire and euphoria. Read [Mobile9]...

mediabistro.com: Articles: Lies, Damned
Lies, and Google

mediabistro.com: Articles: Lies, Damned
Lies, and Google 02/19/2004 10:02 AM
Lazy reporters lean on Google for meaningless statistics .. Journalists Using Google Page Estimates .. "Lies, Damned Lies and Google .. Lionel Beehner .. more

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Lies, Damn Lies And Telephone Calls

Lies, Damn Lies And Telephone Calls 02/12/2004 02:44 AM
You would think that, if someone needed to tell a lie, they'd prefer to do so over email, where they wouldn't let their voice betray them. However, a new study says that people are more likely to lie over the telephone than over email. Amazingly, email-based lies were at the bottom of the list. People told the most lies over the telephone, the second most face-to-face, followed up by instant messages and email last. Maybe that's why people are tryin g to fight parking tickets via the phone. Apparently, there's just something truthful about email. The basic theory by the researcher, though, is that people tell lies by voice because there's no record of what they said - and it can vanish into thin air and be disputed later. They also lie more during live conversations because they're put on the spot and don't have time to think through a good answer. That certainly makes some amount of sense. Of course, the other theory (which I like best) is that the subjects for this study lied in giving their results...

Lies, damned lies and patches

Lies, damned lies and patches 04/13/2004 09:51 AM

Lies, Damn Lies And Technology

Lies, Damn Lies And Technology 05/12/2004 05:13 PM
A few months ago we wrote about how one guy predicted that 3G mobile phones would never take off because the camera phone part would make it difficult to lie about where you were. We had no idea that most people used their mobile phones to lie about their location (or that that single factor would damn the entire product category). However, apparently the lying segment of the population is out there, and they've got money to spend, so solutions started cropping up, including a way to put fake image backgrounds into camera phone images to make people think you're somewhere you're not and (even more impressive) fake audio sounds to complete the faux imagery. There are even (apparently) bars that have fake office backdrops for camera phone enabled workers sneaking out for a drink. Douglas Rushkoff is now wondering about all this technological effort put into helping us lie better and wonders if it really shows how technology advancements make us more truthful. All these efforts show that people now need to make much more of an effort to be dishonest, which makes it even clearer (perhaps to themselves as well) how much they are lying. In fact, Rushkoff believes that such enforced honesty should be seen as an opportunity for people, rather than as a reason to avoid the technology altogether.

OJR article: Free Content Becoming Thing
of the Past for UK's Online Newspaper
Sites

OJR article: Free Content Becoming Thing
of the Past for UK's Online Newspaper
Sites 10/31/2003 04:04 PM
OJR article :: Free Content Becoming Thing of the Past for UK's Online Newspaper Sites .. Pay to Play in the U.K

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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

India's Upcoming Free Software, Free
Society Conference

India's Upcoming Free Software, Free
Society Conference 06/05/2005 11:10 PM
Free software advocates and IT delegates from around the world will be in Kerala, India, this week in the hopes of building free software collaborations for the future.

Barefoot Software Launch Australian
Swimsuit Edition-Free, a Free Mobile
Phone and Wireless Device Service for
Cardmate on Symbian Devices

Barefoot Software Launch Australian
Swimsuit Edition-Free, a Free Mobile
Phone and Wireless Device Service for
Cardmate on Symbian Devices 06/12/2004 02:48 AM
Barefoot Software Asia Limited (BSAL) is pleased to announce the launch Australian Swimsuit Edition-Free (ASE), via the Barefoot Software website (http://www.barefootsoft.com) for immediate download. ASE is a Cardmate application for mobile phones which is being launched for Free as a promotional application to end users who have a Symbian based mobile phone. ASE, the first Australian swimsuit model application for Smartphone devices in the World can initially be downloaded by users who have a Nokia (6600/3650/7650), Sony Ericsson P800/P900 and other compatible phones from the barefoot Web site. [PRWEB Jun 12, 2004]

The Future of Free Speech

The Future of Free Speech 09/14/2004 01:54 AM
Cass Sunstein's The Future of Free Speech

"I seek to defend a particular conception of democracy — a deliberative conception — and to evaluate, in its terms, the outcome of a system with perfect power of filtering."

Celerus Networks® Unveils All-In-One
Wi-Fi Management Software Suite in a
Free Software License Package – Offer
Makes Wi-Fi More Affordable than Ever

Celerus Networks® Unveils All-In-One
Wi-Fi Management Software Suite in a
Free Software License Package – Offer
Makes Wi-Fi More Affordable than Ever 06/22/2005 02:31 AM
Celerus Networks ships its feature-rich Wi-Fi management software suite with a no-cost software license delivering unprecedented savings to network builders & managers. The wireless management package offers unsurpassed affordability coupled with comprehensive support services. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

Mobilization of Software Developers: The
Free Software Movement

Mobilization of Software Developers: The
Free Software Movement 06/17/2004 05:32 AM
Mobilization of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement by Margret S. Elliott and Walter Scacchi
http://ope nsource.mit.edu/papers/elliottscacchi2.pdf

Abstract by Author:
Free/open source software (F/OSS) development projects are growing at a rapid rate. Globally dispersed virtual communities with large groups of software developers contribute time and effort often without pay. One force behind this phenomenon is the Free Software Movement (FSM), a 20 year-old social movement whose purpose is to promote the use of free software instead of proprietary software. We show how the ideology of the FSM influences software development work practices in F/OSS communities and how an occupational community of F/OSS developers has emerged from this movement. We present results from an empirical study of a F/OSS development community, GNUenterprise (GNUe) whose purpose is to build an Enterprise Resource Planning system. We show how the beliefs in freedom and freedom of choice, and the values of cooperative work and community building are manifested in the GNUe norms of informal self-management, immediate acceptance of fellow contributors, and open disclosure.

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