Flimmer Skjerm's Blog (3)

What will the world come to? Online communities the next decade!

I once read an famous article, I think it was by Arthur C. Clarke, where he predicted the use of satellites orbiting earth. These satellites could be used to transmit radiosignals and other kind of electronic data. He also envisioned letters arriving just hours after they were sent ... by rocketship. He later recalled this prediction and used it as a good metaphor for how difficult it is to predict the future. How could he have known that the satellites in geostationary orbits he described would… Continue

Added by Flimmer Skjerm on November 28, 2008 at 5:37pm — 6 Comments

In the end it is people that makes all the difference.

It is strange. I feel like I have heard the term "the development is going almost too fast" my entire life. What happened was that people didn't manage to keep up to date with the changes that took place. There were more buttons to push, more potential hidden in the equipment, more information available, more options. From being passive receipients of information, people were simply forced to make conscious choices of what the wanted to look for. It was probably most noticeable when the term "… Continue

Added by Flimmer Skjerm on November 18, 2008 at 5:13pm — 1 Comment

In the beginning it was the community.

I have been hanging around the net since before it was called Internet, I was around when the BBS did flourish, I tinkered with the Commodore computers and was awed by the first ZX computers. One should perhaps think that it was the interest in technology that represented the driving force behind my interest. Yes, to a certain degree it was of course that. But what kept me and my peers going was something completely different: the community. As I write this I have started exploring yet another… Continue

Added by Flimmer Skjerm on November 7, 2008 at 3:16pm — 4 Comments