Notes From the Rocket: A Year is Way Too Long to Wait: Wecome Back, Doctor...

Thursday, December 27, 2007

A Year is Way Too Long to Wait: Wecome Back, Doctor...

..he's back. So very very excellent...

...and thank you, Doctor, for bringing Kylie Minogue along for the ride. Seriously.

Happy holidays.

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Society Changing Tech Inflection Points

1973 Dr. Martin Cooper makes first mobile telephone call.
1973-1974 Rob Kahn (DARPA) and Vint Cerf (Stanford) formulate the basics of TCP/IP
circa 1975 The Creation of Very Large Scale Integration
1975 The release of the Altair 8800
circa 1980 Creation of Cluster Science allows for the realization Taniguchi's 1974 paper on nanotechnology
1981 Xerox PARC Releases the Xerox Star, introducing the world to desktop UI
1983 TCP/IP Protocol becomes the only approved protocol on ARPANET
1986 The Challenger Disaster
1990 The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
1990 Tim Berners-Lee creates first web browser at CERN
1997 TiVo and ReplayTV emerge almost simultaneously
1998 Wide addoption of HTTPS allows for secure financial transactions on the web
2001 Apple doesn't redefine digital music, but how digital music is packaged and sold with the iPod
2001 BitTorrent protocol implemented and released by Bram Cohen
2004 Web 2.0 , less of a technology and more of a hosted service, paves the way to social network and collaborations
April 9, 2007 100,000,000th iPod sold
June 29, 2007. iPhone released. Do I think this will outsell other phones? No. Was it a good idea to sell it locked at a premium? No. Is the fanboy base more annoying than Paris Hilton? Yes. Will it change the way the cell industry treats its users? Absolutely.
Oct 22, 2008. First Android phone release as the T-Mobile G1. Is this specific phone an iPhone killer? No. Is the fact that 30 more Android phones are on their way?
Q4 2008. The world economy collapses due to home financing fiasco. The tech sector begins to feel it - when the dust clears, only the long lasting tech plays will survive.
Q1 2010. Digital media economy well underway, with "print" added to the bucket list of traditional media.