Carokann's Periscope

Humans have always wanted to predict the future. The internet introduced “wisdom of the crowd”. Under certain conditions the crowd is more correct in estimating and predicting things. So what…

  I use a local search for my desk and Google on the net. Well, with Google desk I can use the same search engine. I use Office programs on…

(Image By janetgalor @ Flickr) Are you tired and bored or even upset of all the spam in your inbox? There are many good spam filters these days but you can…

We all know that Apple’s computers have a given sector in the luxury-class PC. They are not the greatest in sales volumes but in terms of design and quality they…

I am sitting here in Bangkok in the Baiyoke Sky Hotel at the 59th floor and writing on my book. (If you ever been in Bangkok there is a big…

    I have used Voddler beta for a few weeks now and there are many things still missing before it is ready for a wider public. For you who…

Google has a good grip on most of the Internet. Right now they are using their dominant position to advance their positions further. Most of us still associates Google with…

Sunday, December 13th 2009, 1:40 AM Interesting reading about Ray Kurzweils view of the future 10 years ahead.Ten years is not a very long time. As Mr Kurzweil points out,…

via youtube.com Google recently revealed the main ideas of the Google Chrome OS. I like the concept with storing all (that means ALL) the data in the cloud. The cloud…

via technology.timesonline.co.uk Google’s mobile, planned for 2010, will of course be based on Android but more interesting is the intention to connect Google Voice with VOIP and deliver free calls….

Ari Fishkind for I.B.M. David Lubensky, left, and Salim Roukos of I.B.M. are using many humans, namely the company’s 400,000 workers, to improve digital translation. via nytimes.com Crowd sourcing or…

This Friday I had the internal speech within Volvo. I talked about Internet development and we are just in the middle of an exponential progress of the Internet. I claimed…

Posterous.com is a blog service that I am starting to like. It is easy – just an email and the email will be will be published as a blog post…

Photo by mightyohm In 1985 the first CD ever was sold, it was an album by Dire Straits and later on Michael Jackson’s Thriller became the most sold CD (or LP)…

Be it in assembly lines, the military or in surgery rooms in a hospital, today’s robots can perform highly complex tasks. The research of the day is to find robots…

In this video the surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr have a very fascinating speech about surgery in the past and in the future. She starts from the time when there…

The paper-less society is near! Picture by Sarah G… The next generation of eReaders have a great potential for saving paper and the next step some years later is digital…

Some technologies look so cool and nifty but they don’t change much of our life and behaviour. Other technologies might not look so interesting or sometimes even boring but will…

Once upon a time we traded goods and services without any money at all. After a while we started to use  gold and jewelry to pay goods and services. Later…

Maglev is short for magnetic levitation trains. These trains use electricity to power up magnets in order to float on a cushion of air over the ground. They reach 500 km/h and are really interesting alternatives to trains and airplanes.

The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed William Gibson The best example of a cyborg is, in my opinion, people with a pacemaker. Helping such a…

There are a lot of  “get thousands of followers in less than x days!” but for what? Why do you want many followers? I have asked myself that question. Let’s…

I have my breakfast right now, a cup of red tea, fruit, some bread and butter and corn flakes. I also take an Omega-3 pill. It is not very different…

We know that one day robots (or computers actually) will be smarter than us – The point of singularity. In my previous post, “5 Technology disasters”, I talked about disasters as a result from excessive faith in technology. With these examples in mind, what can go wrong with robotics in the future? Well, everything of course. Can it be that they take over control and rule us humans? Probably not but there is a risk…

We need to look back in order to look forward. Here is a list of technology disasters that we should learn from in the future use of technology.

Yes I know, there are a lot of Location Based Services (LBS) out there. I know, I know… But it could be so much more and so much better. Currently…

I have tested many different solutions for cheap international telephony. There are many type of  payment models, technologies and features. I will give my view on this but you should…

We have something about robots in the western world. Robots are dangerous. We can accept that they will do the boring and maybe difficult jobs that humans can’t do or avoid to do. Robots are a threat and they will eventually take over. The Terminator! This is not at all the case in the developed Asian countries.The perception of the robots is much more playful and there is even a strong belief in the future of robots. This playful interest in robots is likely to give Asia’s robot development an even greater advantage.

I read about the next “big” thing, namely 3D TV: The future 3D TV – we look at some of the best angles Yes it is cool, really coo but…

My old blog Carokann’s Periscope including history is completely moved to my own domain here. I will continue to double post to both this and my old blog for a…

I mean the command interface. What devices are the most natural to start having a voice interface? Mobiles of course! We talk in them already. A voice interface to the…

When Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline coined the term “cyborg” 50 years ago they were talking about people living in the outer space. Today we can define a cyborg as…

The hype around Social Networking is really at its top right now. Can social networks that is both very useful and entertaining in private be useful for enterprises?

Media companies have entered a dangerous way. Making their own customers to their enemies. Instead they should embrace the changed conditions and utilize the new opportunities.

Two links about future possibilities and threats. Interpret brain signals and grow muscles

I have used Twitter for about one month now and I have checked out most of the Twitter tools there are. A good source for tools is http://twitter.pbwiki.com and another one…

Still many people print papers on mass. e-Readers will eventually offer a good alternative to printing. Imagine a really thin light-weight display with A4-format. The look and feel is similar as reading from paper. The text is not shattering and you read comfortable. We are close to that now and the question is: Why print if you have this?

Comparing the three social bookmark services Delicious, Twine and Diigo.

The result from my poll is both surprising and interesting!

I found two articles today, both dealing with Internet threats. One in wired and one about the Australian Censorship.

Ok folks! I will show you 4 blog-posts and they are written in two ways: I wrote the story in Swedish. After that I had it translated in Google Translate….

Social networking will form our future. A free Internet is the key to a free world. Whatever magical technologies we ever will come up with.

It has never been so easy and so cheap to monitor what people are doing. Will government agencies and other organisations deny themselves this opportunity? Absolutely not!

Humanoids and other moving robots are beginning to be useful in our daily life. They are slowly starting to leave the laboratories to help us clean, remember things, heavy lifts or just for entertaining.
Is everything just fine?

Nanotechnology is an area that really fascinates! As usual when talking about really powerful technique, the possibilities are enormous but so are also the threats. Will we get Nano garbage, leaking nanotoxicity into our macro-world?

Singularity is the point when computers are smarter than humans and that will happen! What will this mean in practical life?

The problem with writing in another language than your mother tongue and about machine translation. Finally about my little experiment to use machine translation for my blog.