Category Archives: Technology

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

January 27, 2010 – 12:58 pm

As a former management consultant at a firm that specialized in scenario planning, I love reading the sweeping statements and predictions people have made that have turned out to be wildly wrong.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
– Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“There is no reason anyone would want [...]

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Architecture Art

January 18, 2010 – 4:45 pm

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
A gorgeous, meditative tour through imagined spaces and structures. What struck me most was not that it was full-CG — which, yes, is amazing — but that here, at the beginning of 2010, an immersive virtual world like this can be produced by ONE GUY.

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From Ambedkar statue take right, aur yahan se left

December 18, 2009 – 12:28 pm

When I lived in Mumbai, it took me months to figure out how to navigate the city. Rickshaws, trains, and taxis were easy enough — it was how to communicate where I wanted to go that was the problem.
People didn’t pay attention to addresses – they knew building names. They didn’t say “the intersection [...]

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