People are sharing more and more information about their lives, Facebook tells us that there are more than 60 million status updates everyday, and more than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month. Furthermore, people are beginning to broadcast their location through services such as Foursquare and Google latitude. The rapid rise of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Future’
March 10, 2010
Google: Power and ambition harming the brand?
Here’s a well put together video that aims to help people comprehend just how powerful Google is, and how incomprehensibly powerful they may become. Is it possible to command such power and retain the principle “don’t be evil”? Or on the other hand is it possible to command such power and have people believe the [...]
February 19, 2010
If you go down to the woods today… you’ll find some great targeted advertising
There aren’t many places left in this world where you won’t be subjected to advertising. However, you would assume that while walking the dog in the middle of the woods, miles from any LCD screen, or even mobile signal, you might have found one of the few remaining places still devoid of advertising. So it [...]
November 4, 2009
Japan: Toilets more advanced than the average PC
Here’s a little picture of the toilet in my last hotel room that can be found across Japan. Some very interesting buttons and it was also a little odd to see a power cable going into the toilet seat! Can’t see these appearing any time soon in the UK, more due to reasons related to [...]
October 31, 2009
Japan: As mobile obsessed as I hoped
It has been widely reported that QR codes are common place in Japan. In my short time in the country so far I can confirm this to be true. In fact I got one put in my passport as soon as arrived. Since then I’ve seen them all over the place, from hotel information posters [...]
October 21, 2009
New technology: New expectations
The latest technology has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and in turn these possibilities have brought with them new expectations. It doesn’t take us long to adjust to the benefits of new technology, and what starts out as a luxury or perhaps novelty can soon become a necessity. Not many of us [...]
