People don't realize this yet, but what they really want is a device that becomes a living extension of their body, while enhancing their own sensing limitations. It'll make them feel smarter, more powerful. And - that - is a very addictive feeling.

I'm starting realizing this myself, because I've been using an iPhone for over six months now, and I've become pretty much addicted to it. With it, I do stuff I never dreamed I could do before!

I acknowledge David Hasselhoff from the Knight Rider


Actually, some people did realize this back in the eighties, and thought that the coolest thing they could have was a digital watch.

In an infinitely large universe, such as, for instance, the one in which we live, anything; even the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; is POSSIBLE, when other things are NOT! -- especially when you own a digital watch.Douglas Adams

I carry in my pocket the instant access to all my pictures, all my music, all my notes, all my work, all the people in my world (phone numbers, emails, addresses,...). And I can show it all off at social events in a useful and convenient manner.

While traveling, I'm fully aware of my location, of the route I want to take and of what's happening around me. I can get the instant access to the History of the place around me or any place in the world. I can get answers to every single question that might spring in my mind. Find out which of my friends are near me, and engage them to do stuff (Not yet actually. I still can't do that, but I'll get there someday).

Sounds familiar? To me, it sounds at lot like The REAL Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy :)

So what makes these hand-held devices different from the other devices? The looks? Nope, think again. It's the sensors! The difference are those wonderful little sensors that enable location and orientation awareness to the device. They give ears, eyes, skin and mouth to the device, and they are well programmed, so they start to become a living and breathing extension of our own limbs and organs.

Then again, this is nothing new, and I'm expecting, any time now, someone crying at me saying:
[...]that's no problem. just stick this fish in your ear.
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Below is a screenshot of the most interesting article of 2013, period. Written by one the most-influentials "good" guys of world, Julian Assange. The article deals about the promiscuity between Google top-notch executives and the White House, and how it affects both institutions policies, at the expense of the people's freedom and will. Below the article I share with you some notes I've taken.

Assange sums it all up to us in two words: "Jared Cohen", and a question "Who is he? ". It's worth it to check him out. I googled him to find out he's a futurist thinker, thinking about the disruptive reach social networks and, now, context networks can attain, world-domination-wise. A megalomaniac thinker surely, with the wits, the will, the intuition, the perception and the goal.

Back in 2005 I was really excited about the web2.0 concepts, the web-based APIs, mashups, and all the new publishing tools that was later to be known by 2008 as "social-media". However, back then, it really wasn't the modern facebook-ish "social-media" model that was tingling my neurones; it was rather the emergent nature of these disruptive new tools such as blogs, wikis and web-based productivity apps such as Google Docs or Zoho.
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Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook ... what is the REAL future of computing, as seen from 2010?

I don't know, exactly. In my last post I simply summed up Google to an advertisement company and Apple to a leisure-time company. And indeed, I still think it is what they are, and what they focus first to become, consciously.

Somebody wrote a while ago:

Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.

To which I add:

Apple is a leisure company that builds popular media-platforms that command large audiences of media-consumers.

And, to my insistence, beyond games/apps, music, movies, tv-shows, books and magazines, Apple will try hard to become a vacations, travel and experiences re-seller. It's the natural next-step for them ...

I just got accepted to the most awesome workshop in the whole world, organized right here in Lisbon, the Codebits 2010, promoted by sapo.pt,

I'll be staying three days, in a row, in a big room packed with free wifi and free cable net access, unlimited free pizza, free cokes, free chocolate bars and a horde of PT finest geeks. I'll participate and assist to the biggest festival of creativity in PT geekdom. Missed it last year.

One of the biggest pain in the butt after an exciting conference/workshop/meeting is inputing all your fresh new contacts business cards info into your digital mail/phonebook. This is a problem. An unsolved one too.

Another problem, is that you don't know who, from the meeting, after you gave them your contact, actually checked you out afterwards. You can't tell how many checked on you neither.

Here's an elegant and smart solution to alleviate this problem, provided it gets widely adopted.

Android is for tasks, life-hacks, body-hacks, and Chrome is for organized data, information.

At some point in the foreseeable future I expect to see an elegant merger where a next-gen browser will be the sole platform. But first, the life/body-hacks platform will need to walk the walk it has to walk, and I expect it to be, at least, a five-years march.

Hello all, it's been a while since my last post. These last months were spent mostly dedicated to finish my unfinished thesis - Ever heard of PhD comics? No? Well, it works better than Dilbert for me. Here's a nice one ...
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