Internet Explorer and Safari may be pre-installed on their respective operating systems by default, but in this day and age they’re generally not considered very impressive compared to the likes of Chrome and Firefox. At one point I wondered what purpose do they even serve if their makers seemingly put so little effort into making them competitive. A friend jokingly told me they’re there so you can use them to download a “real browser” like Chrome or Firefox. Until recently I agreed. They both seemed rather underwhelming. Chrome and Firefox Read More

Dell offers four tower workstations in it’s Precision line of products: T1600, T3500, T5500, and T7500. The T3500 is the most affordable of the Tx500 line, but still provides plenty of power and options for professional use. Dell’s Precision T3500 provides a good selection of options and performance at entry-level prices. It is an excellent choice for professional users. The Precision T3500 is targeted towards professional users of CAD, animation, and video editing software. These are demanding applications in terms of CPU, video, and RAM requirements. The T3500 can provide Read More

Few days ago I watched the latest Zeitgeist: Moving Forward movie after being linked to it by a Facebook friend about a week earlier. I watched it out of curiosity, and since I watched the previous two Zeitgeist films. I also watched it because they tend to be entertaining, intriguing and daring. If you ask me Zeitgeist gets a lot of things right when it comes to identifying the problems we find ourselves in, but slips when it comes to identifying the causes and prescribing solutions. But why is this Read More

I’ve recently watched an interesting documentary about globalization and its effects. It is called “The Economics of Happiness”, and it lays down eight “inconvenient truths about globalization”: Globalization Makes Us Unhappy Globalization Breeds Insecurity Globalization Wastes Natural Resources Globalization Accelerates Climate Change Globalization Destroys Livelihood Globalization Creates Conflict Globalization is Built on Handouts to Big Businesses Globalization is Based on False Accounting You would have to watch the documentary for a full explanation of these, but the general theme is probably familiar to anyone who has visited this subject before. Read More

It may be hard to imagine, but back in the seventies you would be considered either crazy or a visionary (or perhaps both) if you predicted that computers will be as common as kitchen appliances, yet this is exactly what Steve Jobs was predicting back then. Needless to say this vision has materialized, perhaps more than anyone could have imagined. Computers are so common and even so crucial to modern day society it is hard to imagine living without them. In fact, a lot of us owe our livelihoods to Read More

News of telepresence robots prompts some to argue that we are already going too far in terms of replacing personal face to face socializing with technological means such as Internet chat, facebook, instant messaging, virtual worlds and now telepresence robots. Anecdotes of neighbors who talk to each other over MSN instead of face to face are bandied about as examples of something going terribly wrong. First off, I find it really interesting that this has become such a popular issue. I remember when my parents kept telling me to get Read More

The technology industry is one of the most important industries in the world. Technology is what pushes human evolution forward. While there are other important industries, like the food industry, it is technology which provides them with tools to function and advance. It is no surprise that the world of technology is filled with idealists, people who have a particular vision of how things should be, and want to change the world to meet this vision. The rapidity of technological evolution swiftly introduces new challenges to our existing ideas about Read More

Every new decade experiences more change than the previous one. Quite a bit happened between 2001 and 2011 and a lot more can be expected between 2011 and 2021. Some of what I’m about to present are actually likely to be quite conservative “predictions” as they are based on trends that are already well under way or have enormous potential that we are very unlikely to pass up, controversy and conflicts that may occur over them notwithstanding. 1. Predominantly Mobile Computing (or the “Post PC” era) There has been a Read More

Optical Drives As far as optical media such as DVDs and CDs go we seem to have entered at least the beginnings of a phase out stage that previously befallen the floppy disk. I would actually argue that this was in effect for a while now, but it was a silent trend. Nobody really seemed to have talked about it until Apple shipped a greatly popular MacBook Air, and the rest of the industry followed with a horde of ultrabooks, most notable for their thinness, lightness, use of flash storage, Read More

For some time I’ve been of opinion that in the future it will not only be music, movies, books, images and software that will be essentially costless to copy, but real physical objects as well. I typically envision something akin to replicators that can be seen in science fiction worlds like Star Trek, using nano assemblers to assemble things on a molecular level. All you need is a raw material, which can theoretically be anything that the assemblers can conveniently extract necessary atoms from, and energy. While nanotechnology is advancing Read More