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What is the future of communication?

What is the future of communication?

My rant from Yesterday made me think about the future of communications. Currently, we have e-mail, SMS and IM as the three dominate forms of non-spoken electronic communication. I poked around the Net and landed on a press release from Gartner about the mobile messaging market. The numbers blew me away. They estimate mobile messages will exceed 2 trillion messages in 2008. This is close to a 20% increase from 2007 levels. I did not find estimates, from sources I…

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Experiences in the Gene Pool: The New iPhone

Experiences in the Gene Pool: The New iPhone

What is the status of the human gene pool? I am concerned at what I see… Case Study: The New iPhone ==== N O T I C E ==== The new iPhone is released today! Get yours today, before you are labeled an “uncool looser”! OK, I do not have an iPhone nor do I care to own one. I have seen and played with them. They look and feel cool but they are not the most productive device. Blackberry…

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Oh Crap – I think I am going to Fry

Oh Crap – I think I am going to Fry

After lunch, I spend about 15 minutes catching up on my reading, well sort of. I use Google Reader to process RSS feeds form websites that I regularly visit. I then “star” the headlines of interesting looking articles that I want to read later when I get home. Reader pulls in the headlines of about 200 stories each day and this process cuts the reading time way down. At night, I try to read about 10 articles. On the weekend,…

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