Loke Uei Tan just wrote me and said he liked my Channel 9 videos so much that he’s now doing his own about Microsoft Malaysia.
As I was going through my blog reading this morning I found it very weird that I traveled halfway around the world and am having the exact same experience here as I have back in Redmond. Our world really has become as small as a conference room.
I was thinking about all the 747’s parked in Heathrow Airport and just how the introduction of commercial airplanes have changed our lives. If you wake up at about 5 a.m. you can see Boeing driving many of the parts of those planes up 405 by my house. If you ever come to Seattle you really should get a tour of the 747 factory about an hour north in Everett, WA. It’s amazing to think that those things are all built there.
But inside Heathrow you can see the other changes our society is undergoing. First of all, outside Heathrow is a huge sign advertising Wifi. Inside, even Google is now competing for your attention (I’ll check Google Space out on Monday).
It really is weird to be sitting in the UK, watching a video from Malaysia, while visiting Gabe Rivera’s servers back in Silicon Valley and reading Memeorandum. Imagine you lived 100 years ago and time-traveled to today. Would you be able to cope? I wonder how different the world will be 100 years from now. Will we recognize it?
Yet I’m reminded that about 5/6th of the world’s population has never been on a computer and the lack of wifi where I’m staying reminds me again that the neighborhood I live in is quite a bit different than most of the rest of the world (on the way to the airport I had my Tablet PC on and counted 20 Wifi networks, most of which were open, in just the few miles between my house and the freeway onramp that I use every morning to go to work — and that’s a low-density residential neighborhood).
Just some observations.
Scobleizer 
It’s been years since I was onboard a 747. I can still remember seeing the last of Pan Am 747’s at JFK and AerLingus at Dublin.
I got to ride in the cockpit of a Virgin Atlantic 747 once and it was like surfing the clouds….
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It’s been years since I was onboard a 747. I can still remember seeing the last of Pan Am 747’s at JFK and AerLingus at Dublin.
I got to ride in the cockpit of a Virgin Atlantic 747 once and it was like surfing the clouds….
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You’ll have to let us know how many wifi networks you count on your travels around sunny Gwent etc. I’m guessing it’ll be fewer than 20…
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You’ll have to let us know how many wifi networks you count on your travels around sunny Gwent etc. I’m guessing it’ll be fewer than 20…
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A defining day for me was when I was in Gothenberg Sweden a year ago April on my daughter’s birthday. While our home is near Toronto, she was teaching English in Taiwan. From my hotel room in Gothenberg I sent a birthday card from Blue Mountain (and luckily found a very appropriate one), transferred money between our bank accounts in Toronto for her birthday gift and then attended her birthday celebration in Taiwan via an MSN Messenger video connection. Just 32 years earlier when we spent 18 months living in Germany I could not even get a telephone into our apartment in that time period due to the German telephone infrastructure at the time!
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A defining day for me was when I was in Gothenberg Sweden a year ago April on my daughter’s birthday. While our home is near Toronto, she was teaching English in Taiwan. From my hotel room in Gothenberg I sent a birthday card from Blue Mountain (and luckily found a very appropriate one), transferred money between our bank accounts in Toronto for her birthday gift and then attended her birthday celebration in Taiwan via an MSN Messenger video connection. Just 32 years earlier when we spent 18 months living in Germany I could not even get a telephone into our apartment in that time period due to the German telephone infrastructure at the time!
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> Yet I’m reminded that about 5/6th of the world’s population has never been on a computer . . .
Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop is now finally being produced for children in the developing world. We should all buy a couple and send them out.
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1006-100_dollar_laptop.html
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> Yet I’m reminded that about 5/6th of the world’s population has never been on a computer . . .
Nicholas Negroponte’s $100 laptop is now finally being produced for children in the developing world. We should all buy a couple and send them out.
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1006-100_dollar_laptop.html
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Brooks: Microsoft tried to donate to that effort and was rebuffed. So, I don’t think I’ll donate either. Sorry. Apple was rebuffed too. Seems that only Open Source money and effort is needed there.
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Brooks: Microsoft tried to donate to that effort and was rebuffed. So, I don’t think I’ll donate either. Sorry. Apple was rebuffed too. Seems that only Open Source money and effort is needed there.
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“Brooks: Microsoft tried to donate to that effort and was rebuffed. So, I don’t think I’ll donate either”
Have you realized that sounds as snooty as the impression you got from their refusing Microsoft?
That isn’t the attitude one sees in your other posts!
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“Brooks: Microsoft tried to donate to that effort and was rebuffed. So, I don’t think I’ll donate either”
Have you realized that sounds as snooty as the impression you got from their refusing Microsoft?
That isn’t the attitude one sees in your other posts!
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Scoble wrote “Microsoft tried to donate to that effort and was rebuffed.”, but
“Microsoft [] is a financial contributor to MIT and a backer of its Media Lab”
WSJ.com article
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Scoble wrote “Microsoft tried to donate to that effort and was rebuffed.”, but
“Microsoft [] is a financial contributor to MIT and a backer of its Media Lab”
WSJ.com article
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