While I was traveling last week, I had an epiphany: there is a common theme to pretty much everything I have been writing about here on Continuations! The theme is the transition from the Industrial Age towards what I will call the Age of Abundance. I believe we are in a period of massive transformation that is on par with the move from agricultural to industrial society (or before that from hunter gatherers to farmers). So rather than just continue with my regular somewhat haphazard blogging...

While I was traveling last week, I had an epiphany: there is a common theme to pretty much everything I have been writing about here on Continuations! The theme is the transition from the Industrial Age towards what I will call the Age of Abundance. I believe we are in a period of massive transformation that is on par with the move from agricultural to industrial society (or before that from hunter gatherers to farmers). So rather than just continue with my regular somewhat haphazard blogging...

I continue to be amazed at the things we have available to us - we generally live in the future. But every once in a while the past intrudes with full force. As in when I tried to connect an HTC Evo to a Mac laptop with a USB cable to transfer a bunch of video. At first, I got absolutely nothing. Then I went into settings on the Evo to discover that there is a setting to change the USB connection from “charging only” to “mount." Easy, I thought, until I noticed a pop-up on the Mac saying "Unr...

I continue to be amazed at the things we have available to us - we generally live in the future. But every once in a while the past intrudes with full force. As in when I tried to connect an HTC Evo to a Mac laptop with a USB cable to transfer a bunch of video. At first, I got absolutely nothing. Then I went into settings on the Evo to discover that there is a setting to change the USB connection from “charging only” to “mount." Easy, I thought, until I noticed a pop-up on the Mac saying "Unr...

The IPv6 standard was first published in 1998 which is now 15 years ago. For a while it looked like adoption would drag on forever resulting in some anguished discussions. But by about 2011 IPv6 started to develop real momentum on private networks with Google achieving 95% IPv6 on their internal network at the end of 2011. Another major milestone was World IPv6 Launch Day, which took place last June. A study that was just presented a couple of weeks ago at the NANOG conference shows (PDF) tha...

The IPv6 standard was first published in 1998 which is now 15 years ago. For a while it looked like adoption would drag on forever resulting in some anguished discussions. But by about 2011 IPv6 started to develop real momentum on private networks with Google achieving 95% IPv6 on their internal network at the end of 2011. Another major milestone was World IPv6 Launch Day, which took place last June. A study that was just presented a couple of weeks ago at the NANOG conference shows (PDF) tha...

One of my favorite quotes is William Gibson’s “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” He apparently said this for the first time as far back as 1993 and it seems more true today than ever. We now have self driving cars and heel-to-toe walking robots. And at the same time we stil have a few hunter gatherer societies that live almost entirely untouched by civilization. But what is most striking to me is that many of the conflicts around the world seem to be about t...

One of my favorite quotes is William Gibson’s “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” He apparently said this for the first time as far back as 1993 and it seems more true today than ever. We now have self driving cars and heel-to-toe walking robots. And at the same time we stil have a few hunter gatherer societies that live almost entirely untouched by civilization. But what is most striking to me is that many of the conflicts around the world seem to be about t...

We are at a perilous fork in history where many of the choices that we are making now and in the coming years will determine whether we are headed towards an information-based utopia or dystopia. It is not any single choice that matters but rather their cumulative effect and how these choices interact with each other. Here is how I see the two possible extreme future states of the world: Utopia. Transparent information sharing. Global collaboration. Renaissance of arts. Reputation more import...

We are at a perilous fork in history where many of the choices that we are making now and in the coming years will determine whether we are headed towards an information-based utopia or dystopia. It is not any single choice that matters but rather their cumulative effect and how these choices interact with each other. Here is how I see the two possible extreme future states of the world: Utopia. Transparent information sharing. Global collaboration. Renaissance of arts. Reputation more import...