Meet human and insect cyborgs

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 vital organ as the heart with a machine is really an example of human and machine in symbiosis. Pacemakers have been around for more than [...]

Twitter: The difference between listeners and followers

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 use some Twitter slang…

I am currently following around 1000 Tweeple. That doesn’t mean that I can read all their Tweets.  No one (almost) are using the [...]

What will you have for breakfast 2020?

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 from what I had 10 years ago except  from the Omega-3 pill. 10 years ago I wouldn’t touch a pill if I was not ill. [...]

Will robots really take over?

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 [...]

Five technology disasters

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 [...]

Why is Location Based Services not taking off?

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 we have proprietary solutions each covering a narrow field. It is not only proprietary software but also proprietary networks. Remember the chat history? Now the chat [...]

Comparing Skype, Rebtel and others

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 of course select a solution according to your own situation. The basic structure is PC to PC , PC to phone, phone to PC, [...]

Robotics – a realistic future view

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 [...]

The next big thing?

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 is it the next “big” thing?
Sorry but it will not change anything, I mean it will not change our behavior patterns not even slightly.
It is similar [...]

The same blog but a new host

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 while and eventually close down the old one.

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