Opensource.com provides some important predictions about AI over the coming year.
Hmm! I guess we do that all the time. In this case, I’m talking about the future of the PC. Or data processing in general. Whatever. I read this story about Google automatically identifying and blurring faces, and it reminded me of the year 1980. In 1980 I was a graduate student at Andrews University…
I was chatting with a friend and showed her this picture, which is in the header of my publishing company site, Energion Publications. She immediately asked, “How did you get Mo to wear those glasses for a picture?” “I didn’t. I photoshopped it in there.” (In case you didn’t know, when your program name becomes…
Since I run a part-time business that is essentially customer support, I’m always interested in the quality and methods used to deliver it. For me, this is very personal. I am either on a contract or a by-call basis for small businesses that are not large enough to have their own IT deparment, but are…
TechRepublic has an excellent video, and a text article. I have been slow in moving toward Vista, but I now have a few installations to deal with. The basis of this video and article is that often one wants to have extra backups of certain critical files. I do this because quite frequently I want…
I enjoyed reading a short article on the history of Computer Bulletin Board Systems (later just BBS) on ZDNet, not because I was there at the start (in 1978 I was learning how to work with a programmable calculator), but because it ended up at Fidonet. Starting in 1985 I operated a Fidonet BBS in…
I’m usually not too impressed with predictions of future changes, but these look well thought out. I’ve been telling my customers that more and more work will move to laptops and smaller devices and that installing wired networks may soon be a thing of the past. It looks like this is likely to happen.