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Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo The planet Neptune is pictured here. The main screen of the WorldWide Telescope contains stars visible to the human eye that are mapped into constellations. Microsoft has released a free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is software... [19 May 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment But it's certainly not rare to see big claims made on its behalf, whether it's the apparent cost savings to be gained by installing a shiny new IT system, or less fiduciary savings - such as saving the planet from the environmentally damaging... [28 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet Earth. We have been building such technology for more than 100 years and it is in everyday use planet-wide. Who decided to put the speakers in the roof... [14 Apr 2008]
Caption Competition: Mine all mine!
Photo The winning entry, from reader Roy Fagon, was "A small ball now human but one day it will be you whole planet. This competition is now closed. LOL. Photo credit: Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks [02 Nov 2007]
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century - Absolute Identification
White Paper If society has the will, they argue, one could uniquely register every person in the United States, Europe, Asia, and possibly the entire planet. Indeed, a growing number of scientists, engineers, and politicians now see identification of human... [10 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers
Comment These days people who have zip technical training or experience are managing some of the biggest IT projects on the planet. For example, all banking decisions now seem to have been delegated to machines with human knowledge of the local situation... [20 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My Christmas wish list
Comment Next to storing energy our biggest problem is generating it without making a mess of the entire planet. I don't see the human species and our fingers getting smaller so please give me a BIG mobile phone! [20 Dec 2006]
Registrar accused over dot-eu stash
News He said: "I think it's a very idealistic approach and, if you could guarantee every human on the planet would adhere to that, it would be fine but it's not. A registrar and reseller of dot-eu domain names has denied accusations his business has... [09 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment Provided the planet can stand it - and that remains to be seen - it sounds like a good formula for extending and expanding peace and stability. Only very high levels of automation can compete against low-cost human labour. [18 Jul 2006]
Does this man have the best job in IT?
News The CTO for DreamWorks Animation - the studio that created movies including Shrek, Shark Tale and its latest, Over the Hedge - said: "I think I have the coolest job on the planet. Leonard said: "Technical innovation is paramount to everything we do... [23 May 2006]
Scientists go back to school
News Computers] are set to revolutionise and accurately predict the threat of pandemics, as well as look at what is happening to our planet's biosphere. The group says computers will advance in particular biology, where they will be used to solve not... [23 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Are we heading towards a new dark age?
Comment According to the theory's proponents, this seems to be especially true when normalised to the growing population of the planet. Some see the peak of human innovation around 100 years ago with a predicted plunge back to 1400 levels within the next... [14 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 7/7 shows we need more networks
Comment The fact that we have just one very dominant OS and Office Applications Suite has clearly increased risk and unreliability for computing systems across the planet. Our species is remarkable, and to misquote a line from a movie I saw sometime in my... [08 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Life as a tech-nomad
Comment Given that I must be able to get online everywhere I go, I have five ISPs across the planet providing me a number off access modes including Wi-Fi, wired LAN and fixed and mobile phone lines. Human life has been evolving rapidly since we first... [06 Jan 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: God for a day
Comment Are we safe in the long term or should mankind be planning to abandon the planet? And while I'm at it - Ordnance Survey maps covering the entire planet universally linked to GPS in all vehicles. Of course, I would do all the usual stuff of stopping... [07 Oct 2004]
