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A Wikipedia a Day Keeps Facebook Away
Seeing the stat that Facebook users in the US are spending 50 minutes per day on the service, I can’t help but recall Clay Shirky’s book Cognitive Surplus. From my own review: Cognitive Surplus starts with a potent historical parallel and an astonishing data point. Early 18th century England had a “Gin Craze” as…
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Fumbling the Future: Virtual Reality Edition?
TL;DR Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality play is far from a sure thing. Fumbling the Future is a great book that plausibly explains why Xerox merely copies and prints, despite having pioneered foundational elements of computing at PARC, including bitmapped displays, local area networking, WYSIWYG document editing, object-oriented programming and built the first GUI computers. More…
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Segmenting Virtual Reality
When you say virtual reality today, most people think of Oculus VR. They singlehandedly resuscitated the ‘90s flash-in-the-pan that was virtual reality (with no small help from Moore’s Law). But the space is developing quickly and there are multiple segments emerging with very different capabilities, price points and challenges: PC VR – the Oculus Rift…