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Clear-Cutting the Future: We’ll Hear More About This in 2005
12/29/2004
It's really hard to decide between my two favorite holiday presents. The antique jigsaw puzzle, complete in its original box, of the characters from the old "Terry & the Pirates" cartoon strip delighted me; in part because it helps me appreciate how much popular culture has changed (and hasn't) since the early 1950s and in part due to vanity-I was named after the major character.
But I think my overall favorite is the tiny little, black (stealth) keychain device, which purports (and so far has proven it many times over) to let me turn off any remote-enabled television. I have a serious hate-hate relationship with televisions. My dislike of television has grown for years but tipped into activism after a blood pressure-induced hospital stay a year ago, during which I learned that there were no television-free patient rooms in the University of Michigan hospital.
After being driven to ER by ambulance, straight from my doctor's office from what was to have been an ordinary visit. It took a long time before I was moved to a real hospital room. My hopes of a quiet stay were hurt when I saw the television on the other side of my room flicker off as I entered. (At 1:30 am!) And they vanished when my roommate woke up at 6:30 am and as the first part of his daily routine turned his television back on.
Last week I promised to write about some IT news we might be seeing in 2005. One thing that relates to my little black stealth device in some ways is the "Free Culture" movement. Its proponents claim that proprietary corporate software and hardware restrictions, as well as a lot of related intellectual property law is resulting right now in a virtual "clear-cutting of the future, driven by a business monoculture in which the only worthwhile goal of any creativity is the accumulation of dollars.
But I promised to write about other things. Let's see. How about: Memory will get cheaper and computers will get faster. Or: Wireless will become even more ubiquitous. Clearly, those things will happen, and will get reported on, as will new and different kinds of malware-along with our efforts to thwart it. There are a couple of less obvious trends that we'll be hearing more and more about that I find particularly interesting.
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