Info Tech

Lately my head has been spinning from flashes of how rapidly communications technology is co-evolving with social change. I’ve posted remarks about some of them: mobile communications, always-on teenagers, consumer generated internet content, and video bits coming to cell phones. But an article to be published in the August Technology Review really brought home to me how sweeping this is. ...

A news story covering the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) statement on Internet governance was first reported in The International Herald Tribune, and then in The New York Times. A statement published June 30 on the Web site of NTIA says in part, "The United States Government intends to preserve the security and stability of the Internet’s Domain Name ...

A survey of executives reported in a Technology Review blog predicts–what else?–more work in future. Not nose-to-the-grindstone, more like nose-to-the-Blackberry. Relates to discussions of work/life balance and "the creative class."

Here’s a NYTimes article that says greater bandwidth and better equipment is improving the quality of desktop-to-desktop video for teleconferencing. So it’s possible to do better now than those Logitech cameras the size of a tennis ball that send fuzzy, herky-jerky images. I’m all for reducing travel by better and better communication. Send bits, not people I always say.