tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23831846236999419992024-03-13T09:03:18.634-07:00Internet Future UKOur writer Dr, BDO Adams, a web professional since 1995, a information retrieval specialist. looks at how the internet might develop, over the next ten years, and into the deep future.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-7559616925801291332012-09-05T12:57:00.001-07:002012-09-05T12:57:14.388-07:00Marketting your BlogI surprised to find blog aggregates are not mention in most posts about marketting your blog. A aggregate summarises and links to list articles in your RSS and ATOM feeds, so if you want to be read, it makes sense to take the time to get yourself listed on available aggregators within your subject group. As an example <a href="http://www.blogknox.com/">BlogKnox</a> and <a href="http://www.feeddistiller.com/">Feed Distiller</a> will list your site from <a href="http://www.feeddistiller.com/writers.jsp">this link</a>, so all you blogger get yourselves listed, its completely
free and gains your both google link juice and direct readers from RSS reading lists.
Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-85759514452833266562012-03-01T19:19:00.002-08:002012-03-03T17:44:49.927-08:00Cyber Currency2 March 2012, BitCoin had 1500 BTC robbed from a third party site having its Bit coin generator open. Previously the currency was thought to be mathematically secure. But not it seems safe from<br />having generating site hacked. BitCoin had promised to be a new world currency, that of a free<br />extra government internet. Although there was no legal force to force replayments of debt, and no<br />government to control BitCoin except the BitCoin group itself, the mathematics of algorithm was thought to be enough to secure the currency.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-3460469994604736652012-01-24T07:44:00.000-08:002012-01-24T07:51:14.953-08:00Bloggers moving to communties sites.If you want readers, it seems you can't stand alone. I've found moving to science2.0 a great way to get readers, and also a peer group to interact with, this no doubt will be true of any subject. It also means I need to redesign my aggretator. When following the output of a group of single subject sites, I need a system that categorizes contain for multiple sources into super and sub categories, and also some moderation system. So i'm going develop one in the coming year. I can give the idea away here, because a course so few read me, ha ha.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-71558781084520416392011-12-27T15:36:00.000-08:002011-12-27T15:51:17.695-08:00WikipediaWikipedia want donations to found it. It the key non profit organision on the net. I'm a businessman, trying to get Eye Balls for of the net, and onto my on site, all my founding is family money, and from where a worked before. Money is something of secret, how much should i donate to Wikipedia, for being the key pages I use to name a subject, for all the knowledge i've learnt there. I use google adsense on my web pages. It would be interesting if I could set a donate to Wikipedia or other charity automatically a fraction of the income, I generate. Actually it would be interesting only to Wikipedia, because I'm late to the internet and poor. Yes I could of bought thousands of useful domain names at the beginning of the internet, and been useful at if i'm lucky one of them. Having Google do my mail, my blogs or my income isn't funny, but money is capacity to do work. Google will never be a total monopoly in other countries but in America might they might be 99%. Does ask jeeves have an advertising system, that would pay wikipedia. And a blog page system? Apache Roller is free. I'm moving to the first adsense copy that donates to Wikipedia a set fraction or (fractions) of the advert cash.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-74682806136317842232011-12-10T23:31:00.000-08:002011-12-10T23:49:47.457-08:00Adsense back at FDI don't know if anyone saw this, but between August and December (2011), Google had taken there advert service away from Feed Distiller. This is because they didn't like one of the categories I was streaming.I got just three days warning, but missed it due to my inadtendence. Finally after deleting the category, a plea to Google got the adverts where back. This might be a threat to anyone<br />using Google Adsense.<br /><br />At Majorana Informatics Ltd, I offer specialized categorization software development, and better than Bayez class filters development, so if you need such services for knowing what category a document falls under please content us at <a href="http://www.majoranainformatics.com/">Majorana Informatics Ltd</a>Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-62682530356978925032010-08-10T18:52:00.000-07:002010-08-10T18:56:22.267-07:00Dum Skype Firefox pluginHey, this so clever, Firefox's Skype plugin, thinks that 01 01 1970 is a phone number and alters the display of HTML tables to look that a phone number. As a fix, i'll have to display, Jan, Feb etc, but really the plugin should be cleverer.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-14003208185452847672010-07-13T17:31:00.000-07:002010-07-13T18:11:01.908-07:00Touch Screen and Guestures for the webHere's a technology that's already common on mobile phones and hasn't yet made it to the internet yet. Touch Screen, and Gestures, the technology has been demoed for ages, e.g. <a href="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3mQGOQTzk">Finger Scrolling Pages</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc">Multitouch</a> demoed some 4 years ago. The pace of innovation on the internet seems slow by comparison now. Yes HP are already selling <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/hp-touchsmart-300-and-600-bump-the-software-to-the-next-level-t">touch screen PCs</a>. But a lot of this is propitiatory, they aren't yet, common standards for connecting a touchable screen, to a computer. Hint to the industry, send a x,y, pressure single down a USB cable for each place on the screen touched of released.<br /><P><br /><br /> Windows and Linux are of course built for one mouse, with single and double click, its been like that for years. Since I've over forty and slower to learn, I'll probably to happier with the mouse plus keyboard for the rest of my obsolete little life, but that doesn't mean its a superior interface. The new generation are already happy with there touchable I phones, and would no doubt like a computer with the interface of an Ipad and the huge amount of software as the existing PC.<br /><P><br />Why no common framework for touch screen for the PC yet. Is it all patent and litigation threats, or guest laziness?<br /><P><br />The Web also needs an update to work this touch screens, especially with mult-touch and gestures. A touch could be mapped to a button click, but can java-script events match more than one figure on the screen a time. The interface is x and y coordinate for a single mouse event. Event libraries need be written for multi-touch and standardised first for the OS and second for the web browser. Even after that, is not obvious at what stage we decide that combined movements become a gesture. OS layers, application layer e.g. browser, and web layers, might in the worst case, all define and recognise two fingers spinning as different gestures, triggering three event at three different layers. So plenty of work for user interface designers for the next tens years or so.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-38417465284404307792010-05-21T05:29:00.000-07:002010-07-13T18:14:09.730-07:00The farm and data centerThis is a beautiful story, on <a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/05/20/uk-prototype-for-cow-powered-data-center/">combining a farm with a data centre</a>. The approach uses clean energy from converting agricultural waste to power the computer in the data centre.<br /><P><br />Its also funny because the many of the websites run on these data centres are already powered by bullshit.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-41058992256760848272010-05-20T05:51:00.000-07:002010-05-20T20:09:56.732-07:00Tapestry and Aspect oriented WebpagesI spent two days this week, at <a href="http://www.allfiled.com/">allfiled.com</a>, a website/company designed to help you, file all household documents, it an interesting company, for the boring tasks, that nobody whats to do, but are essential do everyone. Governments, Utility, Companies, etc, can really stick it to you, if you forget to pay, fortunately this is normally direct debit, maybe if you lazy you just throw all those bills away, or perphaps you where like my father, who had big filing cabinets, where they we all recorded.<br /><br /> Since I'm a programmer, I have to remark most on its software they where using for the webdesign, <br />most websites if they need interaction today are based on LAMP, free commonly used software for web to database work. Allfiled.com use Oracle, Java, lots of Jakarta, Javascript and a system called Tapestry you might not have heard of. And I think when you want solid website engineering that exactly the place to go.<br /><br /><a href="http://tapestryjava.blogspot.com/">Tapestry</a> makes a huge difference to the programming of a website, in most websites, one page, has one programmer file on the server, and any ammount javascript code on the clients side, (that may or may not work, depending on which web browser a user has. Tapestry means that each components of a web page, maybe a border, or a form box you fill in, has its own fragment of code. This either a lots easier to change the look and fill of every single form on your website in one go, or it means for 'changing one line or text, you going to have to search for program fragments in a absolute enormous filesystem of scattered one liners. Its a completely different style of web programming, and takes a lot of getting used to.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-82967200645208072102010-04-25T17:15:00.001-07:002010-04-25T18:12:38.105-07:00Cloud Servers 2.I've just been checking out a recent cloud computer provider, Elastic Host .com. While that the<br />configurator is simple enough, it doesn't offer you a cloud of a computers, its the other way round, you get a single computer, vitually hosting many smaller simulated computers, and at quite an expensive price, £28.80 per/month for 1GB of disk . Plus it doesn't actually scale beyond the matchine i'm currently running, 8*2.4GHz core, and 16GB RAM, there best is 20000MHz and 8GB RAM. Now I thought that cloud meant on demand access to supercomputer level machine for render that are to much for a small company to manage, or being able to update all the computers in your Internet Cafe at the same time. But Elastic are selling access to ordinary servers at high prices, the machine is divided by accounting and virtual host as usual I think. I think I'll stick to co-locating a custom built server myself, for the moment.<br /><br />Its also interesting that a hosting company, uses Youtube (free hosting), to host its demo. Isn't amazing how some some services come for free, and some come very expensive.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-29562967992825833272010-04-23T23:01:00.000-07:002010-04-25T16:13:10.502-07:00BlankDr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-10679970859199879492010-04-23T22:49:00.000-07:002010-04-23T23:00:14.166-07:00Internet Past: Fucked Company GoneI regularly used to check the IT industry status down<br />at fucked company.com, sadly this site itself died.<br />This happens, sometime the owner just can't afford<br />to operated any more, or else, decided is that his own<br />website was bad taste. It happens there are several<br />stages of a company, and many reason for success or<br />failure. It important to know the warning signs. There<br />are plenty of chat rooms for floated companies, and <br />sometimes you get news about them.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-62661313271457356042010-04-21T23:57:00.001-07:002010-04-22T00:21:03.463-07:00Turkish YogurtI've loved <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/04/100413_yoghurt_et_sl.shtml">this story</a> from the BBC today. A Greek man, Minas Karaztoglu who had is picture used without his permission on pot of Turkish Yoghurt, is suing the maker on the Yogurt for 6.9 million Euros. The companies defence, we brought the picture clip art company, in good faith. The clip art company has not put up a defence yet. Its going to need one from Yogurt makers tries to recoup the 6.9 Million it all pay, the old man, who has spirit and maybe not to many years, and I'd like to see have a equivalent to a lottery win, (even enough to pay an extra penny on Yogurt for, and people do pay for packaging, where they like it or not, that Yogurt put that reaches the shopping basket in the one that catch the eye, unless you have time to scan all the items for price, quantity (please divide) and flavor. (semi-Interestingly choices in Flavours often get there prices differences driven down to zero). <br /> Turks and Greek of course don't get on too well in most cases, the Island of Cyprus is divided politically because of this. <br /><br />There's three morals in this story.<br /><OL><LI> Check where your clip art comes from.<br /><LI> Get your picture known<br /><LI> Learn to tell a greek from turk<br /></OL>Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-30531547540715295712010-04-17T17:47:00.000-07:002010-04-17T17:52:08.084-07:00Google Result: Internet AdvertisingYes, from the Google results, advertising revenues are up 27% year on year, and since half of a last year was no growth at all, we can say that Internet Advertising is growing at about 25% for the last two quarters. Those of you, who fund there website by advertising can now expect continuing growth again in the future.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-23142246534817850042010-04-11T17:45:00.000-07:002010-04-11T17:53:04.789-07:00Internet Advertising back for 2010?The quickest way to see that size and growth of the Internet advertising industry, is to head over to <a href="http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html">Google Investor relations</a>, and have a look at there ad revenues for each year or quarter. Since Google own the lions share of the internet advertising market, there figures alone are enough to gauge how well the Internet is doing. As you can see, 2009 was pretty poor year of growth, just 9%, compared with 56% growth in 2007. Well 2009 was a recession year. Can we see an improvement for 2010?, the last quarter of 2009 was looking upwards 17% growth. We'll find out the state of industry when Goggle reports in the 15th of April.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-49632962729853126572010-04-08T15:20:00.000-07:002010-04-11T07:46:36.682-07:00Computerized DrivingA recent new scientist article predicted that computer assisted driving in we a feature of new cars<br />by 2015, in such vehicles the both the cars acceleration braking and steering can be taken over by the computer at short notice to avoid accidents. It might take a bit longer for cars that completely computer controlled, but when this happens, jobs in the delivery and haulage industry are gone forever. For those with little education, driving is a steady job that will be hard to replace. I wonder if our economy could handle that many job losses. Comments please.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-15305708277698965042010-04-08T11:18:00.000-07:002010-04-08T15:20:38.867-07:00Cloud ServersI don't know if you seen that latest free ubuntu operating system. Probably not if your not very technical, but what it contains is a cloud computing setup, with either enterprise or local setup. This means it can either copy the configuration of new a machine, from a network host, or be configured remotely, over the web. Personally I don't think it will be that easy. When my server broke this weak, i had a drive down to the data center to get it fixed. If you've got the wrong IP address for the host, thats it, its down. If your apache isn't set up just right, the network stays down. There is a circle of interdependence here, we need the internet to download the extra software to configure modern servers. No doubt they'll be lots of problems with cloud serving starting, until both the technicians installing servers, and programmers making the operating system, have learned all the listens about what can do wrong setting servers up.<br /><br />Despite the problems, though, being with the money and the problem that needs compute power to solve, ready to need a new server (cloud or otherwise), is a very happy place to be, for a company. Here an example lets say a bioinformatics company has decided to compute (quantum ab-inito) the possible interactions between every protein in the human genome and any other protein (starting another in the genome). That is a problem which requires immense about a computer power. Once they've got the money, they need to buy in the computers. In the amazon cloud module, the company though doesn't have to own or manage a single own of these. And neither do they need to hire the technicians to build and manage the computers. So its made life a little easier.<br /><br />Thats the model for cloud copmputing, and it means and end to having most companies owning there own servers and employing system administrators, servicing engineers and many other jobs.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-15350330377696694082010-04-05T22:16:00.000-07:002010-04-05T22:22:34.442-07:00IPad comes outSo Apples new tablet come out, i've mixed feelings on it, on the plus side its a major new platform with chance to experiment with a whole range of user interaction for touch screens, seeing what works there. But on the other hand, it take the lock down of iphone from the security want on a phone, onto a computer. Apple has the control both of what applications you can place on your iPad, and what application might can be devoloped its very much not a free in the political sense of free platform. We've yet to see weather it will be successful, and with apples marketing might, i'm sure many will be sold, the question is how large the niche will be for the apple ipad.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-35900987086866825962010-04-03T10:15:00.000-07:002010-04-03T10:41:00.096-07:00The effect of google payment on webpages.The google dole post, below of course, was just an april fool day joke. In reality though between Google search delivering the readers and Google adsense delivering payment just for readership (that clicks though), Google does by now in a very algorithmic way control what content get payed for on the web. This meant the Search Engine Optimising, link droping, etc has gone all across the internet, filling up places with content as advertising, in hope of getting rich. In fact though the average blogger content isn't going to make them money. Only a top writer with enough popularity is going to make money. In fact this isn't that much of a change from the print industry. The difference is, previously the publisher had to believe in the Author, and choose to print and advertise it. On the web, it depend on how much google rank, you get. Hence the SEO games, and an industry that tries to game under google algorithm, to get its content to the top of your browser. Sometimes the SEO is payed for, and sometimes its in interconnecting web of popularity. With Facebook now the top way of passing links around, this introdes into friendships, meetings, (e.g. Blogger meet up groups, which is actually gets enough sponsership to pay for some of the nights out, the content is sadly demised by the alcohol, and i even make an arsehole of myself at one), the idea of that the spoonser gets the bloggers to write about there event. Even grass root publishing seems to monetised, by link droping. One thing that i think hasn't been undermined in the day job. The just isn't enough money in blogging for that to happen.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-28487471863247635802010-03-23T10:49:00.000-07:002010-03-23T11:32:17.394-07:00Reading the mind to type by thinkingIn an interesting piece of <a href="http://www.eetimes.com/224100013">news</a> here researchers in the Netherlands, have produced a device, a skull cap, capable of reading brain potential in order to let users type by thought alone. It doesn't state if the head, needs to be shaved for the skull cap to work, but I'm presuming it would. These prototype would be life changing for extreme paralytics, and might also be modified to measure the motor regions instead of the decision make regions, to control prosthetic limbs.<br /><br /> Its research like this that will over next few year, give AI researchers a chance to see deeper inside that brain than ever before. For my the goal is not just to enhance the lives of the disabled, nor to improve normal human computer interaction. For me the goal is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading">mind uploading</a>. If Moore law continues to hold than by 2030 we will have home computers as powerful as the human brain is. These computer could then be trained to learn to copy the signals of the human brain, learning over time, to replicate in silicon, the human mind. Your now immortal soul would be effectively copied into the<br />computer. <br /><br />Of course its very long we to go from measuring signal in the surface of the brain, to measuring all the signal in the brain, but it is a small step along the way. For me magnetic imaging is a way to go, using SQUIDs, superconducting quantum interference devices. The technique is known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography">magnetoencephalography</a>. Year of improvement of the technical would be need in to for it to have resolution to measure single neuron's firing or at least clusters of neurons, Need to upload a human mind. It was very long road, so promise to stay healthy while your waiting.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-44527439946644704422010-03-10T13:24:00.000-08:002023-12-06T16:02:01.864-08:0010 Years since the bubble burst on the first dot com boomMarch the 10th 2010, was the peak of the American Stock market during the first dot come bubble, soon after billion of dollars where wiped of the world wide markets, and many companies sent bankrupt as the world realised that .com, did't automatically mean rich. The failout led to long global recession, that was deepened by the 9/11 bombing a year and half later.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-74477484602579410102010-02-24T15:34:00.000-08:002010-02-24T15:37:49.998-08:003G Mobile Broadband ExperiencesBeing temporally hospitalized I've had the chance to see how it is to run an internet company entirely via my Laptop and Mobile Broadband. My bother gifted me with a T-mobile USB Stick, and that was enough to get me a Windows connections. Once I upgraded my Linux to Ubuntu 9.10 Jaunty Jackalope, the USB stick give me mobile broadband straight away, with the configuration tools in the menu. Of course it didn't run fine. Every-time I left the Internet alone for more than 5 minutes, the connection would drop and wouldn't come back, until I rebooted. Linux and Windows both behaved like that so it must be a problem with the USB stick.<br /> <br /> T-Mobile came which a download policy that blocks out all adult material, and somehow classes Blogspot and You-tube as adult. The on-line prove you age by credit card page, didn't understand my USB sticks phone number, but a quick phone call to there support center, got me registered, and the content block removed. So far so fine. Of course my Vista partition decided to lose its System Event Notification Services, (somewhere near svchost.exe), and my Linux doesn't like my SiS onboard graphic card, several afternoons, editing xorg.conf, didn't fix it, so i'm working and browsing at 800 by 600 on Linux, and not at all on Windows. None of those problems are T-mobiles, it just part of the hassle of having a laptop. <br /><br /> T-Mobile has a 2GB per month, mobile broad band limit. Now some of you light<br />weight users, might think that enough. We all know that shared movies and porn downloads will fill that quick, but I wasn't trying any of those. In fact one download of a Windows Vista services pack, and a few Linux Updates, was enough to push me over that limit. Once over that limit you can't download anything between the pick hours of 4pm to midnight. But you can still browser the Internet. Topping up the broadband, can be done via a matching card, or over the phone and Internet, you'll probably find it expense and possibly even outside you budget. But when you stuck in Hospital, there really isn't a better way.<br /><br /> I'd say the mobile broadband with a laptop, reminds me a lot of my old modem days, you know its going to get good soon, but at the moment it full of snacks and traps. Roll on the next generation of mobile broadband. And Some Linux guru please fix up SiS 671 support, in Ubuntu. SiS may be a forgotten player in graphics land, but its still built in to many old laptops. Ubuntu even has xserver-xorg-video-sis in it, so it might just be my models that's missing.<br /> To summaries mobile board band works we'll enough, if only the stick would correctly redial without losing dhcp or whatever, and have a large bandwidth limit, i'd be very happy with it.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-39870223520876316262010-02-23T05:03:00.000-08:002010-02-23T05:21:01.147-08:00The 2010's the decade the book changedIdea of the Book, was perhaps the greatest development in mankind's history, it change the passing of knowledge from word of month, family by family to something that could remain permanent though history. The invention of the book, created the peoples of the book, ruled by religion and culture wide believes. The early book where used by the Babylonians and Egyptians, writing on early paper and stone. Old books became permanent believes as evidenced by the middle aged Christians, believing Aristotle works, without bothering to check.<br /><br /> The first major changing to the book, was the invention of the the printing press suddenly knowledge was cheaply distributable, even the poor could own a copy of the bible, and then any book, that would be popular enough to make a profit from publishing. The second major change to the book, is about to happen now, already Internet publishing is a major industry, weather as websites, or as blogs. But the book is only just making it to the internet.<br /><br /> Almost everyone knows the players of the internet book revolution, already, Amazon has been selling books by mail order since the late 90's. And Google has been bizzy indexing every book (especially the copyright free out of print books), since 2003. Publishers are beginning to fear for there profits. On the internet information is available freely. Where comes the money from publishing a book. Publishers have begun suing Google over its indexing plan. But perhaps publishers have more to fear from Amazon. Amazon has make the jump from selling paper books, to electronic tombs, readable only on Amazon propitiatory Kindle tablet. Despite being one usage, black and white, with worse contrast than paper, Kindle is a small success, and where success is seen, others are sure to follow.<br /><br /> The future of book, might go two different ways, or somewhere between. First the internet might become a free library giving every book away for free to anyone with internet access. Publishers would hate this, and they would have change they're business model to gain money by advertising, perhaps even product placing, inside stories, like sometimes happens in Hollywood. The other way the internet book might develop is with regulated digital rights management, DRM, for each copy of the book, paid for and read on propitiatory tablets. This would be far worse, for book owners, who tied to particular equipment, can no longer swap or sell books second hand. Likely a bit of both will development, and governments will be arguing about book ownership and copyright for a long time to come. Here are some of the threads about book lawsuits that are already happening.<br /> <br /> Perhaps though, the internet will take the book even further the we can currently imagine, when I read a book, and become evolved in it, I begin creating an imaginary world inside my own brain, that matches the story or the knowledge the author is imparting. Unlike a web-page with its may links, book is a tome of knowledge that tries to be complete in itself. With each book, comes an imaginary world, that might become a movie, a play, or a computer game. This means that along with a book, a certainly amount of artificial intelligence should come. Paper books, just have indices and contents', and Internet book, might come with its own virtual world, automatic illustration. Books might be playable, (like Warlock of Firetop Mountain), with multiple endings. I believe that adding AI to the humble book, will be an even more transformative change to human knowledge than the petty arguments, about ownership and money. The decade of two thousand and teens may be the decade of the book wars. But the decade of the two thousand and twenties might well be the decade of the AI book.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-63896292340325420732009-09-15T10:18:00.000-07:002009-09-15T12:28:36.384-07:00Crop Circle Day on Google<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://weeklyworldnews.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/crop_circle_2009_1.jpg?w=400&h=364"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="http://weeklyworldnews.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/crop_circle_2009_1.jpg?w=400&h=364" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Its Crop Circle day on Google 15 September 2009. Why Not, there pretty and mysterious, and so this is the girl from hipper liner. I run a crop circle list myself. So does google like me? Where is my list entry, <a href="http://www.feeddistiller.com/blogs/Crop%20Circles/feed.html">Crop Circles @ Feed Distiller.com</a>, secret. Shout it from the roof tops baby. Guess what most of the top pages are Virals. Crystal Links was typical, links on crop circles and a spooky infovermercial bleep virt. Beamed me to mean me. You pay for the link by paypal, and the love and attention that went into the graphics was UGLY. I've not master of graphic design either. And graphic Designers have turned me down, when I was offering cash. Lazy Gits. Crystal link could get a link to from my system for the price of reading it. If that has a name its probably "open viral". So...<br /><br /> I'm also interested in the mechanics of the ecology of Viral themes. Do you like being called Viral? Its just descriptive here. Lazy people people want free money from google, and will pay a lot to get it. What traps do those playing P.J.Barham fall into here. The laws of the arena are not clear to me. If Google and Microsoft Bing, want to, they could wipe me out a second. Where's the L in the logo. Do microsoft or google, want the job of managing the ecology. Probably No, its to much thinking. Plus all the politians and pressure group will want to interfere in it. God help us all, if widow twanky starts making the laws. Google and Microsoft make the algorithms, to manage the ecology. Gaming the ecology, matters. Money grows on trees. Sometimes decision trees. But Societies has to work fairly fairly. I've lost the lottery, now what, sofa surfing?. Are the skills going in the tea shops and pubs you'll retreat to. Porcelain china, and Do a lot of work for charity. Graphic designers are safe, especial if they look like models. Another cold hard day for the morlocks. <br /><br /> How do you measure the productivity of a web site, for its money, and for how good it is at doing its reason for existance. As judged by the reviews I guess, is looking deeper a mind trap? But if you don't get the attention of the reviewer that doesn't happen. Google choose crop circles today, which was lucky for crystal links. So it began. And what was the top page on google: The Daily Telegraph. News Matters.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2383184623699941999.post-66577609438213937932009-09-09T21:13:00.000-07:002009-09-09T23:21:22.923-07:00The Chip of Future, AD 2020Since I'm blogging here about the future of computing, i'd thought i'd have a look today, at what the next ten years will bring to the CPU, the processor chip at the heart of all modern computers. Futurology is often a difficult subject but when it come<br />to silicon the future has been pretty well mapped out by maths. Back in the 1960s when the silicon chip was first invented Gordon Moore of Intel, predicted the following.<br /><UL><br /><LI>The number of transistors on a chip will double every two years.<br /><LI>Or equivalently the width of a transistor will shrink by 1.414 every two years.<br /><LI>(From the speed of light), the frequency will increase by 1.414 every two years.<br /></UL><br />Taking these a face value, and starting with 2010s model CPU, 8 cores each running at 4GHz, 12MB of cache. We can extrapolate tens years, five die shrinks of 1.414 time smaller a piece. Lets make that six, to make the math easier, so where really looking at the chip of 2022. Here what we get:<br /><UL><br /><LI>512 Cores on a chip each running at 32GHz<br /><LI>512MB of cache<br /><LI>35 TeraFlops or 35 Million Million Floating Point Math Operation per Second<br /><LI>RAM modules will be 128 GB and run at about 10GHz<br /><LI>Flash Memory will around 1TB module size<br /><LI>Hard Disks? Might well not keep place, might only have 10s of TBs<br /></UL><br />Are we really going to get a chip like that? In particular does the average user need 500 way multicore chips. The Multicore trend only started in the 2004 because chip designer found it was the most efficient way to increase the power of there processors. If it is to continue, software needs to change in order to use many processors at the same time, this will be a big change in programming style, it will<br />require new Operating Systems that can intelligently schedule big tasks to many processors while keeping small regular tasks easierly started on other spare processors. I'm sure it can be done, but will it? If not manufacturers will find it difficult to sell such massively parallel many core chips.<br /><H3>The ATOM version</H3><br />If multi-cores don't catch on, then its more likely manufacturers will opt to use the space on silicon chip to build complete computers on a chip, with I/O, Graphics, Memory all integrated into a single chips, continue the trend started with AMD Fusion chips (graphics processor and cpu on the same chip). For gamers a big GPU and a few cores of CPU, perhaps with a dedicated physics unit, might be the prefer options.<br /><H3>This might be the final chip too</H3><br />Our chip of 2022, is made at 4nm lithography (6 shrinks from the 32nm Intel and AMD will be using in 2010), this is about the limits as to how small we can design chips. In a Silicon Crystal atoms of silicon are spaced about 0.5nm apart. Our 4nm chip has wires just 8 atoms thick. Quantum tunnelling between adjacent wires becomes a problem already at 16nm (scheduled for 2013-2016). Once we can't shrink processors any further we can only make more powerful computers by increasing the size of chip itself or by building vertically, but either way we would have to pay more for building either. Once we stop shrinking chips, the price for each transistor stops going down. So it really looks that the end point of conventional silicon chips is reached in the 2020s.<br /><H3>The revolution is Over and still no AI</H3><br />Our computer of 2020, is still at bit short of a human brain, which is estimated to need about 10^16 Computations per second, and 10TB of memory to emulate. We're about 300 times to slow to match a human brain, and 100 times to little memory. To get there we need another 6 dies shrinks, but one atom thick wires just aren't possible. Having said that a 2020s supercomputer made with hundreds of processors is there, so big organisation, can start playing god with brain rate supercomputers if the're so funded. In fact through, for modelling the brain, we've very much got the wrong architecture above.The brain is made of 100 billion slow but parallel operating neurons connected by 100 trillion interconnections. To emulate really we want chips<br />which are vastly more parallel, integrated with a rewire-able transport system able to connect any segment to any other in real time. Such a chip might only be made once AI or mind-uploading is already standard.<br /><H3>Conclusions: The singularity is delayed</H3><br />Once we reach the end of Moore's Law, I'm sure innovation will continue in computing, certainly in software, but hardware will have stalled, improving only gradually from then on. It might be a long wait before the next revolution, Nanotech, starts. Nanotech rewrites the rule on how to build computers (and everything else), to start it will require 3 dimensional atom by atom construction of self replicating robots, thats not any easy task, nor is it easy to design, Nanotech might come anywhere next century, or never. Some futurologist would like to start Nanotech in the 2020s just to keep Moore's Law working, but Moore's Law is just a line drawn in a existing trends. Hard work makes it continue to be true, but hard work, can't get past the limit of the laws of physics. The computer of much of the current century may have specs like I've describe above, and it will take new revolutionary technology to better it.Dr BDO Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15734160354038667335noreply@blogger.com0