The Art of Information

Tadahiro Kuroda, an electrical engineering professor at Keio University in Japan has proposed a novel method for ultra-longterm digital storage. Kuroda calls his invention the “Digital Rosetta Stone” (DRS), which is nearly as evocative a name as are the possibilities his invention may hold. With all the information we’re creating today, we need a more suitable [...]

In 2010 alone, we will create 5-10 times the amount of information EVER created. What’s more, the pace of digital information creation is accelerating. Whether using Moore’s, Metcalf’s or any other law you might like to measure against – the “up-and-to-the-right curve” of information growth is arcing more and more vertical – outpacing all historical [...]

As the tech and business worlds breathe a collective sigh of relief and excitement over Apple’s unveiling today of its much-hyped and greatly-anticipated tablet device, the real work begins – namely selling the device and creating a ecosystem of content for it. All this talk about the device itself is not surprising, but what struck [...]

Lots of people got one of Apple’s lovely products during the company’s “best quarter ever” in Q4 2009, the company announced today. Apple sold 3.4 million Macs in Q4 of 2009, 8.7 million iPhones, and all this while still moving 21 million iPods. Economic downturn? Maybe in Redmond, but not in Cupertino! The next big [...]

If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m a big fan of Macs and Apple and run my personal and professional lives on Apple products. I’m also an “informationista” – my silly word for  a student of the explosion of digital information and the transformation our lives, businesses, and world is in the midst of. [...]

Happy New Year and may you have a healthy, productive, and fun 2010. Before we look forward in this new year and decade, let’s glance backwards over our collective shoulders. We tend to lose context during gradual evolutions, (our taxes going up 1% annually for 20 years is scarcely noticed but a 20% jump from [...]

Shame on us technology vendors for making “Cloud Computing” more intimidating of a concept that it need be.

For me, and I suspect an increasing number of customers, EMC’s announcements, like this week’s anti-climactic FAST  blast, are increasingly “forward-looking” and provide little details or a convincing number of actual customer testimonies (EMC’s own IT department is an objective reference?!). That’s the “Marketecture” part (see Dilbert below), and points to a trend of EMC [...]

It feels to me like we’re finally on the road to economic recovery, like some pockets of the global economy, specifically in the IT industry, have turned the corner. Or maybe they’re just peeking around the corner?