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

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

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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

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

Athens Games: Best of Greek Past,
Present (AP)

Athens Games: Best of Greek Past,
Present (AP) 08/30/2004 06:20 AM
AP - Little things meant a lot in Athens: a tear from Mia Hamm's eye, or a smile across Jennie Finch's mouth, was as good as gold. A pair of abandoned wrestling shoes, size 13, signaled goodbye for Rulon Gardner. A track baton, about a foot long, turned to kryptonite as the U.S. women's 400-meter relay team fumbled the last medal hopes of Sydney superwoman Marion Jones. These snapshots make up the bigger picture in Athens: 17 days of emotion and excitement in the birthplace of the games, 108 years after the first modern Olympiad in the same Mediterranean city.

At Arlington, Bush Salutes the Dead of
Wars Past and Present

At Arlington, Bush Salutes the Dead of
Wars Past and Present 05/31/2004 08:12 PM
President Bush delivered a Memorial Day address in which he acknowledged the "great costs" of the war in Iraq and tied it to the broader effort to combat terrorism.

The present and future value of Python

The present and future value of Python 12/19/2004 03:00 PM

The universal database is just one example of the kind of next-generation platform service that will be used primarily through managed interfaces. As operating systems consolidate around managed interfaces -- to data, to middleware, to graphics -- they're going to tend to prefer the Java and .NET and Mono VMs over the Perl, Python, or PHP VMs. But the agility of the dynamic languages, and the collaborative energy of their open-source communities, will matter more than ever. Injecting these qualities into the mainstream VMs is something I've always thought was crucial.

Now as many of you probably heard, Jim Hugunin made two dramatic announcements on Wednesday at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. Jim's the guy who created Jython, which is Python for the JVM. His first announcement was that IronPython, which is Python for the .NET Common Language Runtime and for Mono, has been released. The second announcement was that Jim starts his new job at Microsoft on Monday, where he'll work on IronPython and help make the CLR friendlier to dynamic languages. I think this is a huge deal. Managed code isn't a panacea, but it's the dominant way of making programming easier and safer. Last month I wrote a blog item with the title: "It's not the J in Java Virtual Machine that matters, it's the VM." For the same reasons there aren't a dozen CPU architectures that matter, I don't think there will be a dozen mainstream VMs. There will be the JVM, there will be the CLR, and -- let's all pray -- there will be a viable non-Windows alternative to the CLR in the form of Mono. And then, maybe, there will be Parrot, one runtime to bind all the open source dynamic languages.

I don't mean to suggest that integration with the mainstream VMs is a survival issue. Python's doing just fine all by itself. BitTorrent, for example, is touching millions of lives. Users of the SpamBayes Outlook plugin have no idea they're running Python. When I was poking around in the Gmail help system the other day, a Python stack trace came spewing out. If Chandler succeeds, it'll be the first major user-facing GUI application written in Python, or indeed in any open source dynamic language, and that's something I've been wanting to see for a very long time.

What I do want to suggest is that, if we can get really good implementations of Python running on the mainstream VMs, Python will be in a position to touch many more millions of lives -- and, what's equally interesting to me -- to influence the evolution of the managed frameworks running on top of those VMs. There hasn't been anybody inside Microsoft who cares about this, but on Monday that'll change. There hasn't been anybody inside Sun who cares about this either, and I don't know when or how that might change. Still, it isn't ultimately up to Sun or Microsoft to make this happen. What they can do, and should do, is lay the foundation. It's up to somebody in the Python community -- maybe somebody in this room -- to build on top of that. So if you're looking for a project that can really make a difference, you might want to consider Jython or IronPython. Any takers? [Complete text of the speech]

This extract concluded the talk I gave this summer at the Vancouver Python Workshop. Tim Bray's item last week about the d ynamic-language summit at Sun reminded me that I never got around to posting the text of my speech. ...

Interview: MSN Present and Future

Interview: MSN Present and Future 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

Zend, Present & Future, and Web App
Security

Zend, Present & Future, and Web App
Security 06/03/2002 12:05 PM

Rosy present for Yahoo, but cautious
future

Rosy present for Yahoo, but cautious
future 07/08/2004 03:56 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 8 2004 8:07AM GMT

An Overview Of Present, Future of Music
Technology

An Overview Of Present, Future of Music
Technology 09/12/2004 07:09 AM

Industry CEOs On PSP's Present And
Future

Industry CEOs On PSP's Present And
Future 06/11/2004 10:34 PM
ZDNet Jun 12 2004 2:07AM GMT

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…

PowerSchool prez talks product's
present, future

PowerSchool prez talks product's
present, future 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
By Dennis Sellers - PowerSchool, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, last month released PowerSchool SIS 3.7, the latest version of the Web-based, Mac and Windows compatible student information system for K-12 schools and school districts...

Require mod_perl developer for present
and future projects

Require mod_perl developer for present
and future projects 12/03/2003 04:54 PM
Agriya Infoway Pvt Ltd - India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai (2003-12-03)

Tales of the Future Past

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sharp Corp. to present largest digital
LCD TV in August

Sharp Corp. to present largest digital
LCD TV in August 06/15/2004 12:16 AM
Content.sina.com - Mon Jun 14, 08:20 pm GMT

Digital Learning Management Corporation
to Present at Cinapsys Microcap
Conference

Digital Learning Management Corporation
to Present at Cinapsys Microcap
Conference 04/11/2005 11:30 PM
Market Wire Apr 12 2005 2:25AM GMT

Stand-Alone Media Servers and Digital
Media AdaptersJust a Niche in Future
Digital Home

Stand-Alone Media Servers and Digital
Media AdaptersJust a Niche in Future
Digital Home 03/14/2005 04:45 PM
Early digital home media solutions fail to find an early market, but will be reborn in convergence platforms based on well-diffused devices. [PRWEB Mar 1, 2005]

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

Cooking up a digital future

Cooking up a digital future 08/31/2004 04:37 AM
The future kitchen gadgets that could make life easier in the kitchen, say MIT researchers.

Q&A: Gates on digital future

Q&A: Gates on digital future 01/06/2005 07:20 AM
USA Today Jan 6 2005 11:56AM GMT
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