Category Archives: Archive

Dead media watch: the web is dead

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Thomas Purves

Somewhere on a dusty shelf or storage box, I have this old issue of Wire Volume One two containing the strident prediction: “Tired: lynx, Wired: Mosaic”. Lynx is/was a text-only terminal app used for navigating a relatively obscure hypertext protocol, … Continue reading →

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The future is already here, it’s just not worth distributing yet

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Thomas Purves

In 1975, Steve Sasson of Kodak invented the first portable digital camera. It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images – a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured … Continue reading →

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Why the hell don’t all cameras have SIM cards in them yet?

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Thomas Purves

It’s been half a decade or more since phones started getting cameras, and yet cameras still don’t have cell phone connections. WTF? To me this is classic case of industry disruption. An entrenched industry refuses to take seriously a disruptive … Continue reading →

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