Category Archives: futurology

Google bought Jaiku and the future is today

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

The official announcements came out yesterday and there’s, of course, a lot of speculation and guessing going on. It’s Google’s 17th acquisition this year. I’m not impressed. Who is?
What I find most exciting about this acquisition is imagining the new ways I’ll be able to communicate and organize my information using the Google applications sphere [...]

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About the future

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Humanity doesn’t have a goal. But humans do. Humanity didn’t set a course for itself. But humans do, everyday.
I don’t know if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max-like. I don’t even know how much of a future we have, if it won’t be controlled by some robots we’ll create and who’ll decide we’re [...]

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