Posts by Commodification

I really hope that Apple goes with the iHD name because anything that uses the term "tv" seems like it belongs in the 1950's. If you're going to reinvent the large screen in the house, you might as well start with a new name.

1) While sales people are extremely important for most companies, do NOT let them run the company because they will marginalize designers/inventors and turn their products/services into crap 2) Always refine, innovate, and simplify your...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/te...pagewanted=all Quote: This conundrum calls into question one of the most significant contemporary educational movements. Advocates for giving schools a major technological...

It's just that if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates openly admit to each other that Personal Computers in schools hasn't worked out that great (especially considering the financial cost), and it's pretty safe to assume that those two guys are...

I'm obviously not against the use of computers in education, since I probably like them a little too much (Macs in particular). The problem is that the school system spent billions and billions of dollars on computers, edu-tainment...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Tha~t's completely not the case whatsoever. If you want the thread to stay out of PoliticalOutsider, you'll drop that line of thought. Though after careful five seconds of consideration,...

On page 553 in the new Steve Jobs biography by Isaacson it states: "They agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools—far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and...

I think the killer app to drive more powerful mobile devices will be smarter A.I. I'm not expecting true 'strong/general A.I.' that replicates real human-like intelligence, but a very creative use of narrow/applied A.I. that can fake it...

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Microsoft may own the trademark for iHD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDi_(interactivity) I saw that previously as well, but M$ stopped calling it iHD and now calls it HDi instead (why would...

HD sounds like High Definition TV to me , and iTV is already in use.