On Information

Here is a neat little video on Mozilla's new Firefox extension: Ubiquity . Some of the future digital trends it highlights, include: User-generated Mash-Ups: Allowing users (not just developers) to quickly combine information and services from multiple sources. The Semantic Web: Allowing machines to understand language to better understand human requests. The value of web services. I look forward to the day that voice-recognition software becomes ubiquitous. It's surprising to me that it... Read More...

Ever since Pop Art’s first year in business (1997-1998), I have held onto a magazine advertising insert published in the March, 1998 version of Wired Magazine . The piece is the “ Encyclopedia of the New Economy ” written by Browning and Reiss and published by Wired and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture ). The “encyclopedia” is loaded with exuberant consultant-speak, but simultaneously, it’s a prophetic piece about the modern economy and the use of technology an knowledge. Shortly after its publication... Read More...