October 22, 2001
NY Times: Aggressive Strategy Brought On Inquiry of Recording Industry.
For several years, some consumers and financial analysts have accused the major record labels of moving too slowly onto the Internet. Now, the government and the companies' competitors are saying the labels may have moved online too aggressively.
MIT Technology Review: A Smarter Web.
Many feel it can't be done. Even though things are heating up in research labs, the Semantic Web as envisioned by Berners-Lee is hampered by social and technical challenges that some critics say may never be solved. But that's not stopping the W3C and other organizations from trying.
The Economist: Extending its tentacles.
Yet grabbing a chunk of these markets is one thing. Setting their rules is quite another. To understand Microsoft's strategy, it is necessary to look at why it has been so successful. Ahead of the crowd, Bill Gates located the sweet spot in the business of bits and bytes: as the provider of a “platform”.
MIT Technology Review: Digital Preservation.
Increasingly, the record of our civilization is becoming digital, from census data to family photos. The Library of Congress alone has 35 terabytes of files. Yet rapid changes in computers and software could render this data unreadable. Congress recently allocated the library $100 million to look for a way to preserve its files...
Wired News: How Tech Goes Pop.
But perhaps Pop Tech's greatest asset is its persistent drive to present tomorrow's catch-phrases and self-evident notions years or decades before they've been rendered banal or obvious. For instance, what will the house of 2030 look like.
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